Discipline Of Children

and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it--it doth yield.

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

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

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

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, — read the full passage →

Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising <FI>us<Fi> , and we were reverencing <FI>them<Fi> ; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, — read the full passage →

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

`As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

and if any one do not obey our word through the letter, this one note ye, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed,

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

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

And this same also--all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge, — read the full passage →

and as an enemy count <FI>him<Fi> not, but admonish ye <FI>him<Fi> as a brother;

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising <FI>us<Fi> , and we were reverencing <FI>them<Fi> ; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live? — read the full passage →

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him; — read the full passage →

and who <FI>is<Fi> he who will be doing you evil, if of Him who is good ye may become imitators?

Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising <FI>us<Fi> , and we were reverencing <FI>them<Fi> ; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live? — read the full passage →

if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?

And thou--be remaining in the things which thou didst learn and wast entrusted with, having known from whom thou didst learn, — read the full passage →

for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;' — read the full passage →

And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them, — read the full passage →

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

`Beware! --ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

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 ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,

`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.

And they were bringing near also the babes, that he may touch them, and the disciples having seen did rebuke them, — read the full passage →

And Jesus having called near a child, did set him in the midst of them, — read the full passage →

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

taking remembrance of the unfeigned faith that is in thee, that dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that also in thee.

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation; — read the full passage →

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us, — read the full passage →

his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity, — read the full passage →

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

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, — read the full passage →

and the chief priests and the scribes having seen the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, `Hosanna to the Son of David,' were much displeased; — read the full passage →

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow, — read the full passage →