Child Training

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. — read the full passage →

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

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. — read the full passage →

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

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

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 →

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.

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

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

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

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. — read the full passage →

Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings. — read the full passage →

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

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

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.”

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.