Teaching His Children

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.

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

The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant <FI>is<Fi> the borrower to the lender.

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

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

A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous <FI>is<Fi> the sinner's wealth.

`The day when thou hast stood before Jehovah thy God in Horeb--in Jehovah's saying unto me, Assemble to Me the people, and I cause them to hear My words, so that they learn to fear Me all the days that they are alive on the ground, and their sons they teach; --

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, — read the full passage →

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 →

each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

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

A treasure to be desired, and oil, <FI>Is<Fi> in the habitation of the wise, And a foolish man swalloweth it up.

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

`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.

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

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

if, then, in the unrighteous mammon ye became not faithful--the true who will entrust to you?

`For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, whether he have the things for completing?

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