Parents Responsible For Children

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

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

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

This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough.”

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Now says Yahweh who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God has become my strength);

Listen, islands, to me; and listen, you peoples, from far: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name:

“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow. — read the full passage →

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.