Loving Your Son

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

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

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them;

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

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; — read the full passage →

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

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →

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

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

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

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

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

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them; — read the full passage →

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

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,

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

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.

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 →

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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

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?

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

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

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

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

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

“‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am Yahweh your God. — read the full passage →

“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

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

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

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

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.

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 →

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

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.

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 →

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.

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

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

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

above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

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

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

We love him, because he first loved us.

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? Beloved — read the full passage →

“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. — read the full passage →

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

On the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them; — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, — read the full passage →

Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai. — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →