Bad Parents

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

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

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome 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 trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

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

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction: — 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 →

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: — read the full passage →

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! — read the full passage →

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their 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?

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: — read the full passage →

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

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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

Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

For I am come 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 with God nothing shall be impossible.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. — read the full passage →

The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

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

And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. — read the full passage →

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

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

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

If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; — read the full passage →

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. — read the full passage →

Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

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 above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? — read the full passage →

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

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

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

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:

It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. — read the full passage →

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. — read the full passage →

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. — read the full passage →

And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. — read the full passage →

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: — read the full passage →

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I. — read the full passage →

Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

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

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

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

Thus saith the Lord, Go and get a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; — read the full passage →

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. — read the full passage →

O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself. — read the full passage →

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

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

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

And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? — read the full passage →

But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

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

Praise ye the Lord. O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. — read the full passage →

And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, — read the full passage →