Children Being Obedient

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

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother--let him die the death;

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

`Cursed <FI>is<Fi> He who is making light of his father and his mother, --and all the people have said, Amen.

for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother--let him die the death;

`And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

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

An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.

for as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted righteous.

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

and whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping <FI>it<Fi> !'

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

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

and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart,

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

And Samuel saith, `Hath Jehovah had delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as <FI>in<Fi> hearkening to the voice of Jehovah? lo, hearkening than sacrifice is better; to give attention than fat of rams;

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

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

Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

`And now, if ye really hearken to My voice, then ye have kept My covenant, and been to Me a peculiar treasure more than all the peoples, for all the earth <FI>is<Fi> Mine;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death--death even of a cross,

honour thy father and mother, — read the full passage →

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

through whom we did receive grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, in behalf of his name;

for forty years have the sons of Israel gone in the wilderness, till all the nation of the men of war who are coming out of Egypt, who hearkened not to the voice of Jehovah, to whom Jehovah hath sworn not to show them the land which Jehovah sware to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey, are consumed;

for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, — read the full passage →

and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep; — read the full passage →

The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

honour thy father and mother,

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

and we are His witnesses of these sayings, and the Holy Spirit also, whom God gave to those obeying him.'

If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume,

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

that the man of God may be fitted--for every good work having been completed.

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;

ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

I have made haste, And delayed not, to keep Thy commands.

God--causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only--the refractory have inhabited a dry place.

If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.

`And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made thee uppermost above all the nations of the earth,

and he who did look into the perfect law--that of liberty, and did continue there, this one--not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work--this one shall be happy in his doing.

and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers, — read the full passage →

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, — read the full passage →

The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;

reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God,

have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

who shall render to each according to his works; — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Thou mayest not defraud, Honour thy father and mother.'

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

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

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

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, — read the full passage →

The precepts of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> upright, Rejoicing the heart, The command of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> pure, enlightening the eyes,

`When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious--he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them--

according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!

looking to the author and perfecter of faith--Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him--did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered--the obedience,

having been confident in thy obedience I did write to thee, having known that also above what I may say thou wilt do;

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God;

`Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye give tithe of the mint, and the dill, and the cumin, and did neglect the weightier things of the Law--the judgment, and the kindness, and the faith; these it behoved <FI>you<Fi> to do, and those not to neglect.

honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.'

`Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets--I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil;

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

Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.

My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep, — read the full passage →

`Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth, because that thou hast hearkened to My voice.'

So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,

which is the first command with a promise, `That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

`The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to My voice, And I have been to you for God, And ye--ye are to Me for a people, And have walked in all the way that I command you, So that it is well for you.

A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.

And Jehovah is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity.

the blessing, when ye hearken unto the commands of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you to-day;