Leading Children

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

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

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

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. — read the full passage →

The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

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.

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

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.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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 →

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

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

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

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

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

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

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.”

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — read the full passage →

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

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.

But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant, — read the full passage →

Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in their midst, — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

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

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow, — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →

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

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

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

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

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

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk 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.

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — 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.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

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.

They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. — read the full passage →

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

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

Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. — read the full passage →

“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray? — read the full passage →

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” — read the full passage →

I said to their children in the wilderness, Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children.

The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

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.

It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall beyour servant.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. — read the full passage →

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

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.

(but if a man doesn’t know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

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

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

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

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

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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 →

Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in their midst,

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; — read the full passage →

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children; — read the full passage →

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, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, — read the full passage →

For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

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,

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded;

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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