Parent Responsibility

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.

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.

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

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. — read the full passage →

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

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

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.

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

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. — read the full passage →

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

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

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.

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.”

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

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

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. — 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.

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.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

Honor widows who are widows indeed. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

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 →

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.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

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

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

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

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 →

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.

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

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

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

For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

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

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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.

“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”

“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.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

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 →

He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →

Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation! — read the full passage →

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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 →

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

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.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

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.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: — read the full passage →

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

For each man will bear his own burden.

Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,

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 →

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 →

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and Christ Jesus our hope; — read the full passage →

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

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to promise.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn’t say, “To seeds”, as of many, but as of one, “To your seed”, which is Christ.

Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

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

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.

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 →

“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 →

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.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.