Raising Children

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

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

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.”

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.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.

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

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

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. — read the full passage →

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.

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.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

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

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. — 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.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

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 →

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 →

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,

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

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.

A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

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

that God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your father.’

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — 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 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.

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

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

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

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.

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.

Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in their midst, — read the full passage →

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

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.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

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

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.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

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

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 →

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 →

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more. — read the full passage →