Responsibility To Children

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

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

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. — read the full passage →

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

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

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

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

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: — read the full passage →

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: — read the full passage →

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;

For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

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

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

For every man shall bear his own burden.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. — read the full passage →

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; — read the full passage →

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. — read the full passage →

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! — read the full passage →

And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. — read the full passage →

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: — read the full passage →

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: — read the full passage →

For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan; — read the full passage →

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. — read the full passage →

And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the Lord.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: — read the full passage →

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

And the priests’ custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. — read the full passage →

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Do not err, my beloved brethren.

I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; — read the full passage →

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.