Topic
Parent Child Relationship
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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.
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
Do all things without murmurings and disputes,
The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — read the full passage →
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? — read the full passage →
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. — 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; — read the full passage →
Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed. — read the full passage →
My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
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.
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
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.
“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.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
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.
“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
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 →
“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregardhis own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — 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 →
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
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.
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →
For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God. — 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.
“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.
“When he had come back again, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business. — read the full passage →
While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”
one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →
One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
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.
“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy. — read the full passage →
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — 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.
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: — read the full passage →
backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;
Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, — 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.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;
For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’ — read the full passage →
Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →
“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death. — read the full passage →
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her: — read the full passage →
“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’ He didn’t acknowledge his brothers, nor did he know his own children; for they have observed your word, and keep your covenant.
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,
But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →
Peter said, “Look, we have left everything, and followed you.” — read the full passage →
“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, — read the full passage →
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →
For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. — read the full passage →
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”
Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →
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; — read the full passage →
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