Loving Your Child

Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

By words a servant is not instructed though he understand, And there is nothing answering.

Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him: — read the full passage →

Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.

Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising <FI>us<Fi> , and we were reverencing <FI>them<Fi> ; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

But Jesus said, `Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'