Authority Over Your Children

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

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

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.

And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?

And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?

And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things?

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: — read the full passage →

And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

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

And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; — read the full passage →

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. — read the full passage →

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: — read the full passage →

But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; — read the full passage →

And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. — read the full passage →

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. — read the full passage →

And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, — read the full passage →

Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. — read the full passage →

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.