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Disobedient Children
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Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them; — read the full passage →
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
“‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
for which things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”
To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.
He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. — read the full passage →
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
“‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments; — read the full passage →
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 →
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,
backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;
The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, — read the full passage →
A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for man slayers,
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them;
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →
the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day; — read the full passage →
“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
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 if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from your midst. All Israel shall hear, and fear.
The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
If you love me, keep my commandments.
He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”
My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — read the full passage →
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
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 →
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?
You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →
But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. — read the full passage →
if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;
For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to the voice of Yahweh. Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.
For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don’t observe your law.
One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →
They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.
This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
But if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh, but rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then will the hand of Yahweh be against you, as it was against your fathers.
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. — read the full passage →
Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ — read the full passage →
Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness. — read the full passage →
Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you. — read the full passage →
Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! — read the full passage →
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
Then Yahweh’s word came to Samuel, saying, — read the full passage →
Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” — read the full passage →
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →
It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →
Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them. — read the full passage →
This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff. — read the full passage →
To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →
John answered, “A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
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.
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother. — read the full passage →
But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.
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