If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.

A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’

For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.

to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”