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 bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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

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

A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.

The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

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

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected 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.

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 mankind,

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

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

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

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