Spanking Your Child

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it--it doth yield.

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

`As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us, — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

and Jesus having seen, was much displeased, and he said to them, `Suffer the children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

be considering what things I say, for the Lord give to thee understanding in all things.

for if any one doth think <FI>himself<Fi> to be something--being nothing--himself he doth deceive;

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude; — read the full passage →

for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died, — read the full passage →

Then opened he up their understanding to understand the Writings, — read the full passage →

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

and whoever may cause to stumble one of those little ones who are believing in me, it is better for him that a weighty millstone may be hanged upon his neck, and he may be sunk in the depth of the sea.

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace;

for I say to you, that to every one having shall be given, and from him not having, also what he hath shall be taken from him, — read the full passage →

and he said to them, `And ye--who do ye say me to be?' and Peter answering said, `The Christ of God.' — read the full passage →

But Jesus said, `Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;' — read the full passage →

because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world--our faith; — read the full passage →

every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him. — read the full passage →

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering, — read the full passage →

And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant--being lord of all, — read the full passage →

and every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, doth dishonour her own head, for it is one and the same thing with her being shaven, — read the full passage →