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Hi there, many others like you have asked, what should be the order of priorities in our family?

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Let's find out, shall we? You can also discover more on GotQuestions .org.

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The Bible does not lay out a step -by -step order for family relationship priorities. However, we can look to Scripture and find general principles for prioritizing our family relationships.

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God obviously comes first. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and with all your strength.

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All of one's heart, soul, and strength is to be committed to loving God, making Him the first priority.

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Church membership and regular church attendance will be one way a family shows that God is first in their lives.

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If you are married, your spouse comes next. A married man is to love his wife as Christ loved the church.

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Christ's first priority after obeying and glorifying the Father was the church.

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A husband should prioritize God first, then his wife. In the same way, wives are to submit to their husbands as to the

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Lord. A woman's husband is second priority only to God. If husbands and wives are second only to God in our priorities, and since a husband and wife are one flesh, it stands to reason that the result of marriage relationship, children, should be the next priority.

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Parents are to raise godly children who will be the next generation of those who love the Lord with all their hearts, showing once again that God comes first.

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All other family relationships should reflect that. Deuteronomy 5 .16 tells us to honor our parents so that we may live long and so things will go well with us.

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Note, no age limit is specified, which means as long as our parents are alive, we should honor them.

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Of course, once a child reaches adulthood, he is no longer obligated to obey them, but there is no age limit to honoring them.

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We can conclude from this that parents are next in the list of priorities after God, our spouses, and our children.

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After parents comes the rest of one's family. Following one's extended family in the list of priorities are fellow believers.

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Romans 14 tells us not to judge or look down upon our brothers, or do anything to cause a fellow

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Christian to stumble or fall spiritually. Much of 1 Corinthians is Paul's instructions on how the church should live together in harmony, loving one another.

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Many other exhortations referring to our brothers and sisters in Christ are scattered through the

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New Testament. Finally, comes the rest of the world, to whom we should bring the gospel, making disciples of Christ.

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In conclusion, the scriptural order of priorities is God, spouse, children, parents, extended family, brothers and sisters in Christ, and then the rest of the world.

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While sometimes decisions may be made to focus on one person over another, the goal is to not be neglecting any of our relationships.

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The biblical balance is allowing God to empower us to meet our relationship priorities, inside and outside our families.

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