Topic
Parenting
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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.
Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
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.
The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — read the full passage →
These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →
Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
“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 →
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 →
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.
Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, in Gilgal. — read the full passage →
Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.
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.
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.
in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,
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.
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →
It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail. — read the full passage →
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.
one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
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.
Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly; — read the full passage →
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →
My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:
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?
Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.
The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day. The father shall make known your truth to the children.
Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. — read the full passage →
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
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,
“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.
“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.
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
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 →
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 →
Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. — read the full passage →
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. — read the full passage →
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
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;
that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience: — read the full passage →
My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →
These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart;
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.
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: — read the full passage →
for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — 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.
My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof: — read the full passage →
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. — read the full passage →
It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.
and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”
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.
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
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, — read the full passage →
“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →
Honor widows who are widows indeed. — read the full passage →
Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →
Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” — read the full passage →
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
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.”
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →
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.
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? — read the full passage →
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 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.
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 →
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →
He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.
From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
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 all things, for this pleases the Lord. — read the full passage →
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.”
We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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.
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