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Bad Children

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Colossians 3:20

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Ephesians 6:1–3

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

2 Timothy 3:2

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Ephesians 6:4

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Hebrews 12:11

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

Ephesians 6:1–4

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

Matthew 15:4

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

1 Corinthians 15:33

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

2 Timothy 3:1–5

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

Romans 1:30

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

1 John 5:19

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Matthew 19:29

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

Ephesians 6:1

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

Hebrews 12:7–8

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline? — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:21

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

Mark 10:14

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Colossians 3:8

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

Galatians 6:7

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

2 Timothy 1:5

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

2 Corinthians 6:14

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Romans 8:14

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

1 Corinthians 10:31

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Acts 2:1–47

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

Matthew 4:4

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

2 Timothy 3:1–4:22

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

2 Timothy 3:1–2

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

1 Corinthians 5:1–8

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

Mark 3:33–35

He answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:14

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.”

Revelation 21:8

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Ephesians 4:23

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

Luke 1:37

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Matthew 18:10

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.

1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

Mark 10:13–16

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 →

Mark 7:10

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

1 Timothy 4:12

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

1 Peter 4:11

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

James 1:17

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.

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