Punishing Your Children

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

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

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

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.” — read the full passage →

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

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

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

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.

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. — read the full passage →

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

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?

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

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

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.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

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,

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.”

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to 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.

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?