Disciplining A Child

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

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.

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 →

Jesus wept.

He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →

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

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

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.