LDS Asset-Building Scriptures About Family

Posted by: bonnieandtilly on: December 7, 2012

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Asset #1 –
Family Support

 

• Doctrine and Covenants 19:34
  34  Impart a portion of thy property, yea, even part of thy lands, and all save the support of thy family.
• Doctrine and Covenants 75:24
  24  Behold, I say unto you, that it is the duty of the church to assist in supporting the families of those, and also to support the families of those who are called and must needs be sent unto the world to proclaim the gospel unto the world.
• Doctrine and Covenants 75:26
  26  And let all such as can obtain places for their families, and support of the church for them, not fail to go into the world, whether to the east or to the west, or to the north, or to the south.
• Doctrine and Covenants 42:71
  71  And the elders or high priests who are appointed to assist the bishop as counselors in all things, are to have their families supported out of the property which is consecrated to the bishop, for the good of the poor, and for other purposes, as before mentioned.

Asset # 2 –
Positive Family Communication (Teach your Children)

• Moses 6:58
  58  Therefore I give unto you a commandment, to teach these things freely unto your children, saying:
• Doctrine and Covenants 93:42
  42  You have not taught your children light and truth, according to the commandments; and that wicked one hath power, as yet, over you, and this is the cause of your affliction.
• Deuteronomy 11:19
  19  And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
• Mosiah 2:34
  34  I say unto you, that there are not any among you, except it be your little children that have not been taught concerning these things, but what knoweth that ye are eternally indebted to your heavenly Father, to render to him all that you have and are; and also have been taught concerning the records which contain the prophecies which have been spoken by the holy prophets, even down to the time our father, Lehi, left Jerusalem;
• Doctrine and Covenants 43:15
  15 Again I say, hearken ye elders of my church, whom I have appointed: Ye are not sent forth to be taught, but to teach the children of men the things which I have put into your hands by the power of my Spirit;
• Moses 6:57
  57  Wherefore teach it unto your children, that all men, everywhere, must repent, or they can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God, for no unclean thing can dwell there, or dwell in his presence; for, in the language of Adam, Man of Holiness is his name, and the name of his Only Begotten is the Son of Man, even Jesus Christ, a righteous Judge, who shall come in the meridian of time.
• Alma 13:1
  1  And again, my brethren, I would cite your minds forward to the time when the Lord God gave these commandments unto his children; and I would that ye should remember that the Lord God ordained priests, after his holy order, which was after the order of his Son, to teach these things unto the people.

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