Becoming A Parent

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

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

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

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.

There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

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

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 →

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

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. — 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 →

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

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

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, — read the full passage →

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

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, — read the full passage →

Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth–lehem–judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: — 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;

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →