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.
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 →
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: — read the full passage →
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
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 →
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
He said, “A certain man had two sons. — 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?
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — 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?
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
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.
We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
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 →
For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.” — read the full passage →
though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →
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.
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 →
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
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.
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 →
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 →
For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”
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;
but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
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.
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,
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 →
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 →
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
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.
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 →
See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;
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 →
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
This phrase, “Yet once more”, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
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