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.
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
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; — read the full passage →
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?
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; — read the full passage →
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.
Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
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.
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; — read the full passage →
Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
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.
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 →
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. — read the full passage →
Now who is he who will harm you, if you become imitators of that which is good?
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 →
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?
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 →
For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.” — read the full passage →
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 →
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
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.
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
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,
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;
A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. — read the full passage →
Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in their midst, — read the full passage →
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
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.”
For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. — 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 →
one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence; — read the full passage →
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. — read the full passage →
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant, — read the full passage →
as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow, — read the full passage →
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