Loving Your Children

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.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? — read the full passage →

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

He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. — read the full passage →

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. — read the full passage →

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — read the full passage →

They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

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

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. — read the full passage →

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

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

He took a little child, and set him in their midst. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, — read the full passage →

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

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

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children.

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ — read the full passage →

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant, — read the full passage →

Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in their midst, — read the full passage →

Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

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

‘Yahweh bless you, and keep you. — read the full passage →

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; — read the full passage →

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

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

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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.”

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

We love him, because he first loved us.