Role Of Parents

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.

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated; — read the full passage →

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 the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — read the full passage →

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

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

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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.

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

“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.

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;

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

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.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

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.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: — read the full passage →

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — 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.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

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

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

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 →

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.”

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

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.

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

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

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

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.

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 →

“‘You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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 →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, — read the full passage →

Honor widows who are widows indeed. — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and Christ Jesus our hope; — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. — read the full passage →

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;

Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and Yahweh his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly. — read the full passage →

Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

“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.

“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

He said to them, “Why do they say that the Christ is David’s son? — read the full passage →

In his teaching he said to them, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces, — read the full passage →

Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, “How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? — read the full passage →

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.

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. — read the full passage →

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. — read the full passage →

You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, — read the full passage →

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 →

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples, — read the full passage →

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not! — read the full passage →

Yahweh said to Moses, — read the full passage →