Luther's Little Instruction Book: 
The Small Catechism of Martin Luther

Translation by Robert E. Smith From the German text, printed in: 
Triglot Concordia: The Symbolical Books of the Ev. Lutheran Church.
St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921, pp. 538-559. 

Note: This version of the Small Catechism is under continuous revision. Please check your source for this file
from time to time to obtain updated versions of this text.

Fort Wayne, Indiana: Project Wittenberg, 2004

Appendix III
The Home Chart
A number of passages to use to teach and admonish people in all holy orders and statuses in life about their
duties.

For Bishops, Pastors and Preachers:
1 Tim. 3:2-4
Titus 1: 6

What Hearers owe their Pastors:
1 Cor. 9:14
Gal. 6: 6
1 Tim. 5:17-18
Heb. 13:17

For Earthly Authorities
Rom. 13:1-4

For those Under Authority
Matt. 22:21
Rom. 13:5-7
1 Tim. 2:1-3
Titus 3:1
1 Peter 2:13-14

For Husbands
1 Peter 3:7
Col. 3:19

For Wives
Eph. 5:22
1 Peter 3:5-6

For Parents
Eph. 6:4

For Children
Eph. 6:1-3

For Servants, Maids, Hired Hands and Workers
Eph. 6: 5-7
Col. 3:22

For the Man and Woman of the House
Eph. 6:9
Col. 4:1

For Young People in General
1 Pet. 5:5-6

For Widows
1 Tim. 5:5-6

For Everyone in General
Rom. 13:8-10
1 Tim. 2:1-2

If everyone will learn his part,
The whole household will fare well.
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This text was translated in 1994, revised in 2002 and revised and expanded in 2004 for Project Wittenberg by
Robert E. Smith. It has been placed in the public domain by him. You may freely distribute, copy or print this
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