Bad Parents

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

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.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

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

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.

The soul who sins, he 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 on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

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.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

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

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

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 →

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof: — 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 →

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — read the full passage →

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

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 →

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

“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?”

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

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

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

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.”

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death. — read the full passage →

‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

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;

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

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 →

Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.

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 →

As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

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.

Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill? — 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. — read the full passage →

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

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

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

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,

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail. — read the full passage →

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;

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

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

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?

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. — read the full passage →

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

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them; — read the full passage →

You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.” — read the full passage →

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 →

Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests; — read the full passage →

Listen, islands, to me; and listen, you peoples, from far: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name: — read the full passage →

Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out. — 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 →

I said to their children in the wilderness, Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

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 →

Praise Yahweh! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. — read the full passage →

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, — read the full passage →