Child Rearing

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

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

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

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

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

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

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →

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

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

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

“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

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;

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

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.

Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter, — 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;

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

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?

All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children.

Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

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 →

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 →

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 →

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, and also with men.

You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?” — read the full passage →

Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; — read the full passage →

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — 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.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him. — read the full passage →

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them; — read the full passage →

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

“‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

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.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof: — read the full passage →

We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth on them. — read the full passage →

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel. — read the full passage →

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

for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.