How To Train Your Children

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

honour thy father and mother,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

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

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

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

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

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, — read the full passage →

and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it--it doth yield.

which is the first command with a promise, `That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

for, lo, when the voice of thy salutation came to my ears, leap in gladness did the babe in my womb;

he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.

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;

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.

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

God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart,

for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

But Jesus said, `Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'

if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?

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

Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising <FI>us<Fi> , and we were reverencing <FI>them<Fi> ; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,

let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;

And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them, — 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;

and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise--to salvation, through faith that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus;

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

`The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

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

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

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.

if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,

And Saul, yet breathing of threatening and slaughter to the disciples of the Lord, having gone to the chief priest, — 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, — read the full passage →

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

`Beware! --ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

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,

Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus, — read the full passage →

and Jesus was advancing in wisdom, and in stature, and in favour with God and men.