Spoiling Children

Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers. — read the full passage →

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

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 who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

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.

Also command these things, that they may be without reproach. — read the full passage →

“He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. — read the full passage →

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

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.”

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ They began to celebrate. — read the full passage →

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. — read the full passage →

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

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

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.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free. — read the full passage →

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.”

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. — read the full passage →

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” — read the full passage →

and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

I am the good shepherd.The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; — 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.

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.

you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing. — read the full passage →

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’ — read the full passage →

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

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.