Relationships and Families Quotes

Question 1

Parents and Children

Answer 1

• Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord
• Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Question 2

Reproducing

Answer 2

• Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it.
• Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you (…) You are not your own (…) Therefore honour God with your body.

Question 3

Marriage

Answer 3

• a cord of three strands is not quickly broken
• Man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh (…) Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.

Question 4

Celibacy

Answer 4

• I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord’s affairs (…) But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world”

Question 5

Homosexuality

Answer 5

• If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable
• Catechism of the Catholic Church: Men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies (…) must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity.

Question 6

Divorce

Answer 6

• anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adultress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery
• Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her

Question 7

Role of women (4)

Answer 7

• The Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.’
• Wives submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church.
• Sin began with a woman, and thanks to her we must all die.
• For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.

Question 8

Equality (6)

Answer 8

• if you show partiality, you are committing sin
• God created mankind in his own image; (…) he created them male and female.
• God shows no partiality. Indeed, whoever fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him in any nation.
• Because all of you are one in the Messiah Jesus, a person is no longer a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a male or a female.
• Just as I have loved you, you should love one another.
• Submit to one another (spouses) out of reverence for Christ.

Question 9

Slavery

Answer 9

• You may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you (…) they may become your property.
• Slaves are to submit to their masters in everything, aiming to please them and not argue with them

Question 10

Distribution of wealth

Answer 10

• it is easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into the kingdom of God