Child Abuse

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

and whoever may cause to stumble one of the little ones believing in me, better is it for him if a millstone is hanged about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea.

Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.

and whoever may cause to stumble one of those little ones who are believing in me, it is better for him that a weighty millstone may be hanged upon his neck, and he may be sunk in the depth of the sea.

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

and Jesus having seen, was much displeased, and he said to them, `Suffer the children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

`And when men strive, and have smitten a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no mischief, he is certainly fined, as the husband of the woman doth lay upon him, and he hath given through the judges;

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb. — read the full passage →

Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

`Cursed <FI>is<Fi> he who is taking a bribe to smite a person, innocent blood, --and all the people have said, Amen.

O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!

from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man.

it is more profitable to him if a weighty millstone is put round about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to stumble.

A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

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,

for whoever may give you to drink a cup of water in my name, because ye are Christ's, verily I say to you, he may not lose his reward; — read the full passage →

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

`Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb.

and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold;

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

And he said unto the disciples, `It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but woe <FI>to him<Fi> through whom they come; — read the full passage →

And the Lord said, `Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure? — read the full passage →

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled, — read the full passage →

`And unto the sons of Israel thou dost say, Any man of the sons of Israel, and of the sojourners who is sojourning in Israel, who giveth of his seed to the Molech, is certainly put to death; the people of the land do stone him with stones;

for there are eunuchs who from the mother's womb were so born; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who kept themselves eunuchs because of the reign of the heavens: he who is able to receive <FI> it<Fi> --let him receive.' — read the full passage →

and without <FI>are<Fi> the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.

`And he who may receive one such child in my name, doth receive me,

for nothing is secret, that shall not become manifest, nor hid, that shall not be known, and become manifest.

Thy wife <FI>is<Fi> as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table. — read the full passage →

And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction, — read the full passage →

and even if I do judge my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me; — read the full passage →

for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of,

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

and in the morning turning back to the city, he hungered, — read the full passage →

Whoso is troubling his own house inheriteth wind, And a servant <FI>is<Fi> the fool to the wise of heart.

From the mouths of infants and sucklings Thou hast founded strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.

And Hazael saith, `Wherefore is my lord weeping?' and he saith, `Because I have known the evil that thou dost to the sons of Israel--their fenced places thou dost send into fire, and their young men with sword thou dost slay, and their sucklings thou dost dash to pieces, and their pregnant women thou dost rip up.'

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them; — read the full passage →

For lo, in those days, and in that time, When I turn back <FI>to<Fi> the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, — read the full passage →

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not. — read the full passage →

O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!

Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive <FI>for<Fi> the widow.

A man of great wrath is bearing punishment, For, if thou dost deliver, yet again thou dost add.

By David. Judge me, O Jehovah, for I in mine integrity have walked, And in Jehovah I have trusted, I slide not. — read the full passage →

A son of twelve years <FI>is<Fi> Manasseh in his reigning, and fifty and five years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother <FI>is<Fi> Hephzi-Bah; — read the full passage →

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with <FI>him<Fi> , if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--with such a one not even to eat together;

`And thou, son of man, take to thee a sharp weapon, the barber's razor thou dost take to thee, and thou hast caused <FI>it<Fi> to pass over thy head, and over thy beard, and thou hast taken to thee weighing scales, and apportioned them. — read the full passage →

An angry man stirreth up contention, And a furious man is multiplying transgression.

As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honour <FI>is<Fi> not comely for a fool. — read the full passage →

`And if ye do not so, lo, ye have sinned against Jehovah, and know ye your sin, that it doth find you;

all things, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast <FI>is<Fi> nothing pure, but of them defiled <FI>are<Fi> even the mind and the conscience; — read the full passage →

And Elisha spake unto the woman whose son he had revived, saying, `Rise and go, thou and thy household, and sojourn where thou dost sojourn, for Jehovah hath called for a famine, and also, it is coming unto the land seven years.' — read the full passage →

Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man--every one who is judging--for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging, — read the full passage →

for ye are not the speakers, but the Spirit of your Father that is speaking in you. — read the full passage →

The righteous hath perished, And there is none laying <FI>it<Fi> to heart, And men of kindness are gathered, Without any considering that from the face of evil Gathered is the righteous one. — read the full passage →

A son of twenty years <FI>is<Fi> Ahaz in his reigning, and sixteen years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and he hath not done that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, as David his father, — read the full passage →

And Solomon joineth in marriage with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and taketh the daughter of Pharaoh, and bringeth her in unto the city of David, till he completeth to build his own house, and the house of Jehovah, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. — read the full passage →

`And Moses--the elders of Israel also--commandeth the people, saying, Keep all the command which I am commanding you to-day; — read the full passage →

`When there is found in thy midst, in one of thy cities which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, a man or a woman who doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah thy God by transgressing His covenant, — read the full passage →

`Ye do not make to yourselves idols; and graven image or standing image ye do not set up to yourselves; and a stone of imagery ye do not put in your land, to bow yourselves to it; for I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God. — read the full passage →

and ye have kept My statutes and have done them; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, sanctifying you. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

and the Spirit of Jehovah is on Jephthah, and he passeth over Gilead and Manasseh, and passeth over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he hath passed over to the Bene-Ammon. — read the full passage →

`And the person who doth <FI>aught<Fi> with a high hand--of the native or of the sojourner--Jehovah he is reviling, and that person hath been cut off from the midst of his people;

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,

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, — read the full passage →

concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility, — read the full passage →

<FI> no,<Fi> but that the things that the nations sacrifice--they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons.

but I chastise my body, and bring <FI>it<Fi> into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.

The lost I seek, and the driven away bring back, And the broken I bind up, and the sick I strengthen, And the fat and the strong I destroy, I feed it with judgment.

The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, — read the full passage →

As thou knowest not what <FI>is<Fi> the way of the spirit, How--bones in the womb of the full one, So thou knowest not the work of God who maketh the whole.

And better than both of them <FI>is<Fi> he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun.

Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.

A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous <FI>is<Fi> the sinner's wealth.

Praise ye Jah, give thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age, <FI>is<Fi> His kindness. — read the full passage →

(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants--they have not seen light.)

Judas, of Jesus Christ a servant, and brother of James, to those sanctified in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ kept--called, — read the full passage →

Elders who <FI>are<Fi> among you, I exhort, who <FI>am<Fi> a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker, — read the full passage →

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive, — read the full passage →

For the law having a shadow of the coming good things--not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near, — read the full passage →

If, then, any exhortation <FI>is<Fi> in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, — read the full passage →

Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit; — read the full passage →

Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of his burning the bones of the king of Edom to lime, — read the full passage →

Words of Amos--who hath been among herdsmen of Tekoa--that he hath seen concerning Israel, in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the shaking; — read the full passage →

`Hear this, O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, And, O house of the king, give ear, For the judgment <FI>is<Fi> for you, For, a snare ye have been on Mizpah, And a net spread out on Tabor. — read the full passage →

And thou, son of man, prophesy unto mountains of Israel, and thou hast said, O mountains of Israel, hear a word of Jehovah. — read the full passage →

Woe <FI>to<Fi> those going deep from Jehovah to hide counsel, And whose works have been in darkness. And they say, `Who is seeing us? And who is knowing us?' — read the full passage →

And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets hath cried unto Elisha, saying, `Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou hast known that thy servant was fearing Jehovah, and the lender hath come to take my two children to him for servants.' — read the full passage →

`Give ear, O heavens, and I speak; And thou dost hear, O earth, sayings of my mouth! — read the full passage →

`These <FI>are<Fi> the statutes and the judgments which ye observe to do in the land which Jehovah, God of thy fathers, hath given to thee to possess it, all the days that ye are living on the ground: — read the full passage →

`And when a person doth sin, and hath heard the voice of an oath, and he <FI>is<Fi> witness, or hath seen, or hath known--if he declare not, then he hath borne his iniquity: — read the full passage →