How To Train Your Children

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.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

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 →

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.

“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy!

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

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.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

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.

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

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

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 →

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?

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;

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.

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.

They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. — 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.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, — 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, — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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,

Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, — read the full passage →

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.