Loving Your Child

He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

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

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

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

A servant will not be corrected by words; For though he understand, he will not give heed.

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; And set not thy heart on his destruction.

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

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

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

The rod and reproof give wisdom; But a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

Withhold not correction from the child; Forif thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

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

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