Becoming A Parent

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

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

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

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.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

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

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 →

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

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.” — 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 →

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

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

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

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — 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;

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →