Leading Children

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; — read the full passage →

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.

Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.

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

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. — read the full passage →

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: — read the full passage →

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased, — read the full passage →

And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, — read the full passage →

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.

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

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: — read the full passage →

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. — read the full passage →

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. — read the full passage →

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: — read the full passage →

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: — read the full passage →

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

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

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them. — read the full passage →

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

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

Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. — read the full passage →

How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? — read the full passage →

At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? — read the full passage →

But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. — read the full passage →

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

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

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.

Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: — read the full passage →

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons; — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; — read the full passage →

For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →