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;)

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

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?)

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;

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?

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.

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.

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 →