Caring For Children

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them, — read the full passage →

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them, — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

`Beware! --ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

`And the lord commended the unrighteous steward that he did prudently, because the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of the light, in respect to their generation.

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

And having taken a child, he set him in the midst of them, and having taken him in his arms, said to them, — read the full passage →

Others said--`It is Elijah,' and others said--`It is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.' — read the full passage →

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And <FI>be<Fi> ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that <FI>is<Fi> in you, with meekness and fear;

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

feed the flock of God that <FI>is<Fi> among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow, — read the full passage →

And thou--be remaining in the things which thou didst learn and wast entrusted with, having known from whom thou didst learn,

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God; — read the full passage →

`The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

and the chief priests and the scribes having seen the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, `Hosanna to the Son of David,' were much displeased; — read the full passage →

feed the flock of God that <FI>is<Fi> among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind, — read the full passage →

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

which is the first command with a promise, `That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'

honour thy father and mother,

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

And Jesus having called near a child, did set him in the midst of them,

At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?' — read the full passage →

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind,

If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.

honour widows who are really widows; — read the full passage →

aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters--in all purity;

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord,

aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;

that the man of God may be fitted--for every good work having been completed.

And thou--be remaining in the things which thou didst learn and wast entrusted with, having known from whom thou didst learn, — read the full passage →

and at the same time also, they learn <FI>to be<Fi> idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;

Euodia I exhort, and Syntyche I exhort, to be of the same mind in the Lord;

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

honour thy father and mother, — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

And there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleopas, and Mary the Magdalene; — read the full passage →

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart,

But Jesus said, `Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'

And Jesus having called near a child, did set him in the midst of them, — read the full passage →

for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother--let him die the death; — read the full passage →