Bad Parents

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

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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

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

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

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

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come! — read the full passage →

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

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

For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

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

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!” — read the full passage →

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

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

“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly; — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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 →

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience: — read the full passage →

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

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?

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him. — read the full passage →

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. — read the full passage →

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.

Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia: — read the full passage →