Children Growing Up

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 →

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

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.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

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

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles. — read the full passage →

The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

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

For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

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

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

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.”

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

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.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

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

Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation. — read the full passage →

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

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.

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

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 →

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

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.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; — read the full passage →

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

(I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don’t know whether I baptized any other.)

He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

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.

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?” — read the full passage →

There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’

I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’

“Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me.”

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

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

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 →

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow, — 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.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him, — read the full passage →

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

Now I beg you, brothers (you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints),

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? — read the full passage →