Loving Your Children

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.

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb. — read the full passage →

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

When my father and my mother Have forsaken me, then doth Jehovah gather me.

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

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

`Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing? — read the full passage →

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

Causing the barren one of the house to sit, A joyful mother of sons; praise ye Jah!

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger. — read the full passage →

If, then, any exhortation <FI>is<Fi> in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, — read the full passage →

Sons' sons <FI>are<Fi> the crown of old men, And the glory of sons <FI>are<Fi> their fathers.

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

And they were bringing near also the babes, that he may touch them, and the disciples having seen did rebuke them, — read the full passage →

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb.

And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us,

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother, — read the full passage →

And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them, — read the full passage →

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

If possible--so far as in you--with all men being in peace;

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

A wise son rejoiceth a father. And a foolish man is despising his mother.

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

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

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

And thou--be remaining in the things which thou didst learn and wast entrusted with, having known from whom thou didst learn, — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,

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

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

`Beware! --ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

`Only, take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from thy heart, all days of thy life; and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy sons' sons.

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

`But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart, — read the full passage →

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

And having taken a child, he set him in the midst of them, and having taken him in his arms, said to them, — read the full passage →

Chastise thy son, and he giveth thee comfort, Yea, he giveth delights to thy soul.

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

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

`He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

And all thy sons are taught of Jehovah, And abundant <FI>is<Fi> the peace of thy sons.

and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding-- — read the full passage →

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers, — read the full passage →

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

and the chief priests and the scribes having seen the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, `Hosanna to the Son of David,' were much displeased; — read the full passage →

And Jesus having called near a child, did set him in the midst of them, — read the full passage →

Even by his actions a youth maketh himself known, Whether his work be pure or upright.

From the mouths of infants and sucklings Thou hast founded strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son <FI>is<Fi> an affliction to his mother.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not. — read the full passage →

`Jehovah bless thee and keep thee; — read the full passage →

in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down; — read the full passage →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, <FI>is<Fi> the fulness of law.

but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God--to those believing in his name,

`And this <FI>is<Fi> the command, the statutes and the judgments which Jehovah your God hath commanded to teach you, to do in the land which ye are passing over thither to possess it, — read the full passage →

honour thy father and mother,

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

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

As a father hath mercy on sons, Jehovah hath mercy on those fearing Him.

and he lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the women and the children, and saith, `What <FI>are<Fi> these to thee?' And he saith, `The children with whom God hath favoured thy servant.'

taking remembrance of the unfeigned faith that is in thee, that dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that also in thee.

Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions and a house of company.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

`Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God.

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

Then were brought near to him children that he might put hands on them and pray, and the disciples rebuked them. — read the full passage →

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

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

ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens is perfect.

House and wealth <FI>are<Fi> the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> an understanding wife.

`And God speaketh all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

`The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

He who is dwelling In the secret place of the Most High, In the shade of the Mighty lodgeth habitually, — read the full passage →

Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

we--we love him, because He--He first loved us;