Authority Over Your Children

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

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

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

honour thy father and mother,

and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

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

Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.

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

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

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

(and if any one his own house <FI>how<Fi> to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

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

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

These things remind <FI>them<Fi> of, testifying fully before the Lord--not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

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;

and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,

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,

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

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

`The day when thou hast stood before Jehovah thy God in Horeb--in Jehovah's saying unto me, Assemble to Me the people, and I cause them to hear My words, so that they learn to fear Me all the days that they are alive on the ground, and their sons they teach; --

for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed;

lo, I give to you the authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and on all the power of the enemy, and nothing by any means shall hurt you;

And having called together his twelve disciples, he gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to cure sicknesses,

And he having come to the temple, there came to him when teaching the chief priests and the elders of the people, saying, `By what authority dost thou do these things? and who gave thee this authority?'

and spake unto him, saying, `Tell us by what authority thou dost these things? or who is he that gave to thee this authority?'

and they say to him, `By what authority dost thou these things? and who gave thee this authority that these things thou mayest do?'

My people--its exactors <FI>are<Fi> sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people--thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

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 →

And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth;

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

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

these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God,

`In which things, also, going on to Damascus--with authority and commission from the chief priests--

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

And, having watched <FI>him<Fi> , they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor,

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

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

so that he who is setting himself against the authority, against God's ordinance hath resisted; and those resisting, to themselves shall receive judgment.

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.

Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, <FI>am<Fi> a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third <FI>generation<Fi> , and on the fourth, of those hating Me, — read the full passage →

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

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 →

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 →

and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;

and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.

for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

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;

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

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.

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

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

Concerning it to your sons talk ye, And your sons to their sons, And their sons to another generation.

The heart of the intelligent getteth knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

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

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

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

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

Desist, and know that I <FI>am<Fi> God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth.

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

and if wrong in your eyes to serve Jehovah--choose for you to-day whom ye do serve; --whether the gods whom your fathers served, which <FI>are<Fi> beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling; and I and my house--we serve Jehovah.'

and ye have kept and done <FI>them<Fi> (for it <FI>is<Fi> your wisdom and your understanding) before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these statutes, and they have said, Only, a people wise and understanding <FI>is<Fi> this great nation.

and he lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the women and the children, and saith, `What <FI>are<Fi> these to thee?' And he saith, `The children with whom God hath favoured thy servant.'