Bad Parents

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

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

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he 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 yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother sin, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

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

My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

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

And he said unto his disciples, It is impossible but that occasions of stumbling should come; but woe unto him, through whom they come! — read the full passage →

And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; — read the full passage →

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

For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law:

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

For no word from God shall be void of power.

All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness.

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

And it came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the breasts which thou didst suck. — read the full passage →

one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

And my God shall 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.

And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serpent?

Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; — read the full passage →

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

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

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not? — read the full passage →

but whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depth of the sea.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

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

that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience: — read the full passage →

All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?

who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.

whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men;

And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house.

And he went out from thence; and he cometh into his own country; and his disciples follow him. — read the full passage →

But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. — read the full passage →

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

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

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

and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

And whosoever shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it were better for him if a great millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

Or what man is there of you, who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone; — read the full passage →

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