Teaching His Children

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

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

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; — read the full passage →

The rich ruleth over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the lender.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children; And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

the day that thou stoodest before Jehovah thy God in Horeb, when Jehovah said unto me, Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him; — read the full passage →

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

not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; But a foolish man swalloweth it up.

Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; And set not thy heart on his destruction.

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but make them known unto thy children and thy children’s children;

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.

If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doth not first sit down and count the cost, whether he have wherewith to complete it?

Withhold not correction from the child; Forif thou beat him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →