Parental Discipline

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

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?

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”

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

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.

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come! — read the full passage →

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 →

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 →

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? — read the full passage →

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

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come! — read the full passage →