Child Training

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

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

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

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

and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart, — read the full passage →

and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother. — read the full passage →

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

Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother. — read the full passage →

My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,

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

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, — read the full passage →

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

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

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

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

Chastise thy son, and he giveth thee comfort, Yea, he giveth delights to thy soul.

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you; — read the full passage →

Doth man deceive God? but ye are deceiving Me, And ye have said: `In what have we deceived Thee?' The tithe and the heave-offering! — read the full passage →

Even by his actions a youth maketh himself known, Whether his work be pure or upright.

and if wrong in your eyes to serve Jehovah--choose for you to-day whom ye do serve; --whether the gods whom your fathers served, which <FI>are<Fi> beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling; and I and my house--we serve Jehovah.'

for I have known him, that he commandeth his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of Jehovah), to do righteousness and judgment, that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.'

And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant--being lord of all, — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

Then hath Jehovah prepared Over every fixed place of Mount Zion, And over her convocations, A cloud by day, and smoke, And the shining of a flaming fire by night, That, over all honour a safe-guard,