Child Rearing

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 all things, for this pleases the Lord.

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

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

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 →

Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded;

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 →

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.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — 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.

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence; — read the full passage →

nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ. — 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 →

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

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

that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. — read the full passage →

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

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,

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

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

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.

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

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

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.

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. — read the full passage →

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. — read the full passage →

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

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

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →