Abusive Parents

When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.”

All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. — read the full passage →

Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning; — read the full passage →

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. — read the full passage →

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided in your midst. — read the full passage →

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul: — read the full passage →

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. — read the full passage →

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, — read the full passage →

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehennaas yourselves.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.