Taking Care Of Your Children

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb.

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

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

They cried, and Jehovah heard, And from all their distresses delivered them. — read the full passage →

By David, in his changing his behaviour before Abimelech, and he driveth him away, and he goeth. I do bless Jehovah at all times, Continually His praise <FI>is<Fi> in my mouth. — read the full passage →

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

and My people on whom My name is called be humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I--I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord,

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

He who is dwelling In the secret place of the Most High, In the shade of the Mighty lodgeth habitually, — read the full passage →

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

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.' — read the full passage →

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

And it came to pass, in his being in a certain place praying, as he ceased, a certain one of his disciples said unto him, `Sir, teach us to pray, as also John taught his disciples.'

evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, — read the full passage →

and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them, — read the full passage →

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

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

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

Sons' sons <FI>are<Fi> the crown of old men, And the glory of sons <FI>are<Fi> their fathers.

And the Philistines are fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel flee from the face of the Philistines, and fall wounded in mount Gilboa,

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb. — read the full passage →

As a father hath mercy on sons, Jehovah hath mercy on those fearing Him.

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,

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

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

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated,

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

Whoso is lending <FI>to<Fi> Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

feed the flock of God that <FI>is<Fi> among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind, — read the full passage →

honour thy father and mother, — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.

The disciples therefore went away again unto their own friends, — read the full passage →

and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart,

`Beware! --ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not. — read the full passage →

and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.

And thou--be speaking what doth become the sound teaching; — read the full passage →

If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

And Jesus having called near a child, did set him in the midst of them, — read the full passage →

At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?' — read the full passage →

for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother--let him die the death; — read the full passage →

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

Causing the barren one of the house to sit, A joyful mother of sons; praise ye Jah!

And it cometh to pass, at Zimri's seeing that the city hath been captured, that he cometh in unto a high place of the house of the king, and burneth over him the house of the king with fire, and dieth,

`Only, take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from thy heart, all days of thy life; and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy sons' sons.

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

feed the flock of God that <FI>is<Fi> among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

honour widows who are really widows; — read the full passage →

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

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.

And there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleopas, and Mary the Magdalene; — read the full passage →

and he said to them--`Thus it hath been written, and thus it was behoving the Christ to suffer, and to rise out of the dead the third day,

`And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did <FI>it<Fi> to one of these my brethren--the least--to me ye did <FI>it<Fi> .

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

And all thy sons are taught of Jehovah, And abundant <FI>is<Fi> the peace of thy sons.

Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass, when their heart <FI>is<Fi> glad, that they say, `Call for Samson, and he doth play before us;' and they call for Samson out of the prison-house, and he playeth before them, and they cause him to stand between the pillars. — read the full passage →

and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart, — 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 →

sober, pure, keepers of <FI>their own<Fi> houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

And thou--be remaining in the things which thou didst learn and wast entrusted with, having known from whom thou didst learn, — read the full passage →

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,

above all, having taken up the shield of the faith, in which ye shall be able all the fiery darts of the evil one to quench,

honour thy father and mother,

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

`The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come--a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.

A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

We do not hide from their sons, To a later generation recounting praises of Jehovah, And His strength, and His wonders that He hath done.

and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children, — read the full passage →

that the man of God may be fitted--for every good work having been completed.

and at the same time also, they learn <FI>to be<Fi> idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

and these things charge, that they may be blameless;

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

Euodia I exhort, and Syntyche I exhort, to be of the same mind in the Lord;