Loving Your Child

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

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction 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’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

A servant can’t be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond.

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

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

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,

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

Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

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

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

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.”