Love, Reverence, Honor, Nuture

Continuing to think this week about Paul's writings to the Ephesians for Come, Follow Me, I appreciated his counsel about parents loving and reverencing each other and nurturing their children with a family focus on Jesus Christ.  This is so applicable today.

I'm grateful for clarifying counsel by modern leaders in "The Family: A Proclamation to the World".

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it
Ephesians 5:25

Wife see that she reverence her husband.
Ephesians 5:33

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.  Honour thy father and mother;
Ephesians 6:1-2

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:4

It also reminds me of the counsel of King Benjamin in Mosiah 4:

14 And ye will not suffer your children that they go hungry, or naked; neither will ye suffer that they transgress the laws of God, and fight and quarrel one with another, and serve the devil, who is the master of sin, or who is the evil spirit which hath been spoken of by our fathers, he being an enemy to all righteousness.

15 But ye will teach them to walk in the ways of truth and soberness; ye will teach them to love one another, and to serve one another.