Being A Parent

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

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

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

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; — read the full passage →

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.

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

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

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

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

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

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.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

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.

If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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?

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

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

Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

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, — read the full passage →

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid. — read the full passage →

Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

“If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.

Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him. — read the full passage →

I and the Father are one.” — read the full passage →

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. — read the full passage →

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I amhe, you will die in your sins.”

But he said to them, “It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me. — read the full passage →

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.” — read the full passage →

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.