Teaching His Children

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

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

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

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

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

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

the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”

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 →

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

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

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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

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

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

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;

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

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

If therefore you 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, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

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