Corporal Punishment

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

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

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.

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

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

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

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

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;

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

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 →

Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

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.

Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

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.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: — read the full passage →

Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

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,

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.

But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

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

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

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

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.