Ephesians 6:4 (NLT)
…bring them up…
Hebrews 12:10 (MESSAGE)
10 While we were children, our parents did what seemed best to them. But God is doing what is best for us…
Ephesians 6:1-3 (TLB)
1 Children, obey your parents; this is the right thing to do because God has placed them in authority over you. 2 Honor your father and mother. This is the first of God's Ten Commandments that ends with a promise. 3 And this is the promise: that if you honor your father and mother, yours will be a long life, full of blessing.
Ephesians 6:4 (TLB)
4 And now a word to you parents. Don't keep on scolding and nagging your children, making them angry and resentful. Rather, bring them up with the loving discipline the Lord himself approves, with suggestions and godly advice.
Hebrews 12:11 (NLT)
11 No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it's painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living…
James 3:17-18 (NLT)
17 But the wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and good deeds. It shows no favoritism and is always sincere. 18 And those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of righteousness.
1 Samuel 3:13 (NIV)
For I told him that I would judge his family forever because of the sin he knew about; his sons made themselves contemptible, and he failed to restrain them.
1 Kings 1:6 (NIV)
6 (His father had never interfered with him by asking, "Why do you behave as you do?" He was also very handsome and was born next after Absalom.)
Proverbs 19:18 (MESSAGE)
18 Discipline your children while you still have the chance; indulging them destroys them.
Genesis 18:19 (MESSAGE)
19 "Yes, I've settled on him as the one to train his children and future family to observe God's way of life, live kindly and generously and fairly, so that God can complete in Abraham what he promised him."
2 Samuel 22:21 (MESSAGE)
21 God made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I cleaned up my act, he gave me a fresh start.
