Disobedient Children

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

An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.

`When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious--he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them-- — read the full passage →

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

`For any man who revileth his father and his mother is certainly put to death; his father and his mother he hath reviled: his blood <FI>is<Fi> on him.

in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

`And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not. — read the full passage →

for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind,

because of which things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

`And he who smiteth his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

for a sin of divination <FI>is<Fi> rebellion, and iniquity and teraphim <FI>is<Fi> stubbornness; because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, He also doth reject thee from <FI>being<Fi> king.'

to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

for as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted righteous.

And he said to them, `Well do ye put away the command of God that your tradition ye may keep; — read the full passage →

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother--let him die the death;

`And if ye do not hearken to Me, and do not all these commands; — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

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,

evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

thou dost not bow thyself to them nor serve them, for I Jehovah thy God <FI>am<Fi> a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on a third <FI>generation<Fi> , and on a fourth, to those hating Me;

The former account, indeed, I made concerning all things, O Theophilus, that Jesus began both to do and to teach, — read the full passage →

A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

having known this, that for a righteous man law is not set, but for lawless and insubordinate persons, ungodly and sinners, impious and profane, parricides and matricides, men-slayers,

`When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious--he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them--

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

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

the blessing, when ye hearken unto the commands of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you to-day; — read the full passage →

`And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

`And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

a father shall be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.'

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, — read the full passage →

`And if ye do not hearken to Me, and do not all these commands;

for we were once--also we--thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious--hating one another;

God they profess to know, and in the works they deny <FI>Him<Fi> , being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.

`And they are disobedient, and rebel against Thee, and cast Thy law behind their back, and Thy prophets they have slain, who testified against them, to bring them back unto Thee, and they do great despisings,

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

and all the men of his city have stoned him with stones, and he hath died, and thou hast put away the evil out of thy midst, and all Israel do hear and fear.

A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

and he shall go before Him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn hearts of fathers unto children, and disobedient ones to the wisdom of righteous ones, to make ready for the Lord, a people prepared.'

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother, — read the full passage →

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

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

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. — read the full passage →

`And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed, — read the full passage →

and My people on whom My name is called be humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I--I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.

Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

for if the word being spoken through messengers did become stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense,

for every one--whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.'

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

for forty years have the sons of Israel gone in the wilderness, till all the nation of the men of war who are coming out of Egypt, who hearkened not to the voice of Jehovah, to whom Jehovah hath sworn not to show them the land which Jehovah sware to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey, are consumed;

Therefore I have loved Thy commands Above gold--even fine gold.

For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast <FI>them<Fi> down to Tartarus, did deliver <FI>them<Fi> to judgment, having been reserved,

And they say, `Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'

Rivulets of waters have come down mine eyes, Because they have not kept Thy law!

he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath--as also the others,

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

They have not kept the covenant of God, And in His law they have refused to walk,

and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,

`And if ye do not hearken to the voice of Jehovah--then ye have provoked the mouth of Jehovah, and the hand of Jehovah hath been against you, and against your fathers.

And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping <FI>it<Fi> !'

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, For Jehovah hath spoken: Sons I have nourished and brought up, And they--they transgressed against Me. — read the full passage →

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding-- — read the full passage →

Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness, — read the full passage →

Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you. — read the full passage →

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make <FI>them<Fi> members of an harlot? let it be not! — read the full passage →

Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

And the word of Jehovah is unto Samuel, saying, — read the full passage →

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, and unto Aaron, `Because ye have not believed in Me to sanctify Me before the eyes of the sons of Israel, therefore ye do not bring in this assembly unto the land which I have given to them.' — read the full passage →

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

`And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made thee uppermost above all the nations of the earth, — read the full passage →

And the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, take each his censer, and put in them fire, and put on it perfume, and bring near before Jehovah strange fire, which He hath not commanded them; — read the full passage →

the book of this law doth not depart out of thy mouth, and thou hast meditated in it by day and by night, so that thou dost observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then thou dost cause thy way to prosper, and then thou dost act wisely.

Israel hath sinned, and also they have transgressed My covenant which I commanded them, and also taken of the devoted thing, and also stolen, and also deceived, and also put <FI>it<Fi> among their vessels, — read the full passage →

Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;

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

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son <FI>is<Fi> an affliction to his mother.

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

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;

honour thy father and mother,

`Thou dost not see the ox of thy brother or his sheep driven away, and hast hidden thyself from them, thou dost certainly turn them back to thy brother; — read the full passage →

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,