Trouble at home
You are not responsible for fixing your family, and you are not powerless in it either.
In the scriptures
- Old TestamentExodus 20:12
“Honour thy father and thy mother.”
- New TestamentEphesians 4:31–32
“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger … be put away from you … And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another.”
- Book of MormonMosiah 4:14–15
“Ye will teach them to walk in the ways of truth … to love one another, and to serve one another.”
- Doctrine and CovenantsD&C 121:41–42
“No power or influence can or ought to be maintained … only by persuasion, by long-suffering, by gentleness and meekness, and by love unfeigned.”
Where the Church has written about it
- For the Strength of YouthLove God, Love Your Neighbor
- Gospel TopicsFamily
- General ConferenceTalks on difficult family situations
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