You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
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?
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
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.”
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