Adult Children

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.

And I have given to you a new heart, And a new spirit I give in your midst, And I have turned aside the heart of stone out of your flesh, And I have given to you a heart of flesh.

honour thy father and mother, — read the full passage →

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb. — read the full passage →

And thou--be remaining in the things which thou didst learn and wast entrusted with, having known from whom thou didst learn, — read the full passage →

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

And he answering said to them, `Wherefore also do ye transgress the command of God because of your tradition? — read the full passage →

Sons' sons <FI>are<Fi> the crown of old men, And the glory of sons <FI>are<Fi> their fathers.

Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother, — read the full passage →

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

A name is chosen rather than much wealth, Than silver and than gold--good grace. — read the full passage →

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

Chastise thy son, and he giveth thee comfort, Yea, he giveth delights to thy soul.

A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb.

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

And all thy sons are taught of Jehovah, And abundant <FI>is<Fi> the peace of thy sons.

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not. — read the full passage →

`Beware! --ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

`The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them, — read the full passage →

But Jesus said, `Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

`Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not. — read the full passage →

Thy wife <FI>is<Fi> as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table.

for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother--let him die the death;

An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.

Causing the barren one of the house to sit, A joyful mother of sons; praise ye Jah!

and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart, — read the full passage →

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

honour thy father and mother,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God--to those believing in his name,

A wise son rejoiceth a father. And a foolish man is despising his mother.

For Thou--Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly. — read the full passage →

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart, — read the full passage →

`For any man who revileth his father and his mother is certainly put to death; his father and his mother he hath reviled: his blood <FI>is<Fi> on him.

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

`And he who smiteth his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

And he said, `A certain man had two sons, — read the full passage →

In the tenth year, in the tenth <FI>month<Fi> , in the twelfth of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.

`And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

Fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

and they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved--thou and thy house;'

And having taken a child, he set him in the midst of them, and having taken him in his arms, said to them, — read the full passage →

My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth. — read the full passage →

To the Overseer. --A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest. — read the full passage →

and if from a son of five years even unto a son of twenty years--then hath thy valuation been of the male twenty shekels, and for the female, ten shekels;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

`Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

`At the presence of grey hairs thou dost rise up, and thou hast honoured the presence of an old man, and hast been afraid of thy God; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

`And God speaketh all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow, — read the full passage →

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

And Jesus having called near a child, did set him in the midst of them, — read the full passage →

In that day sung is this song in the land of Judah: `We have a strong city, Salvation He doth make walls and bulwark. — read the full passage →

Jehovah addeth to you, to you, and to your sons.

The sons of Thy servants do continue, And their seed before Thee is established!

From the mouths of infants and sucklings Thou hast founded strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.

In the third month of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in this day they have come into the wilderness of Sinai, — read the full passage →

Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; -- — read the full passage →

And, in like manner also, the Spirit doth help our weaknesses; for, what we may pray for, as it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> , we have not known, but the Spirit himself doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable,

The Spirit himself doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God;

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.

Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in,

He who is dwelling In the secret place of the Most High, In the shade of the Mighty lodgeth habitually, — read the full passage →

A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous <FI>is<Fi> the sinner's wealth.