Controlling Parents

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

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.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

A man’s foes will be those of his own household.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. — read the full passage →

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me. — read the full passage →

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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,

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

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

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 second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

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.

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

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

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

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

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.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” — read the full passage →

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

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

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

You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

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. — read the full passage →

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly; — read the full passage →

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.

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?

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? — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

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 →

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, — read the full passage →

Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.

I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth. — read the full passage →

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man)—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies. — read the full passage →

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — read the full passage →

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged. — read the full passage →

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, — read the full passage →

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again. — read the full passage →

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. — read the full passage →

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. — read the full passage →