Our Responsibilities As Parents

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

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

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

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — 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.

But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

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

As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them, — read the full passage →

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

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 the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

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

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

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

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

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

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

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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

But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. — read the full passage →

His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.” — read the full passage →

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

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

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. — read the full passage →

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.