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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.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

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

“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? — read the full passage →

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

For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

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

Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. — read the full passage →

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

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

A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in their midst, — read the full passage →

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 →

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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?

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 →

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

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

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.

Jesus summoned them, saying, “Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. — read the full passage →