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Adult Children
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Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: — read the full passage →
He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →
But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. — read the full passage →
Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
He answered them, “Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition? — read the full passage →
Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.
One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — read the full passage →
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
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.
A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold. — read the full passage →
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:
Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →
See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. — read the full passage →
But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”
Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
“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.
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
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.
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, — read the full passage →
Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →
Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.
For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
“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.
He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!
These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
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.
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.
For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →
Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →
These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →
“‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
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 →
“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →
Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →
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.
A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
He took a little child, and set him in their midst. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, — read the full passage →
My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth. — read the full passage →
Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →
If the person is from five years old even to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
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,
And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,
For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
“‘You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →
as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow, — read the full passage →
Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
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 →
Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in their midst, — read the full passage →
In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks. — read the full passage →
May Yahweh increase you more and more, you and your children.
The children of your servants will continue. Their seed will be established before you.”
From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. — read the full passage →
Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;
Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
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