1 Kings 1:6

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

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

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

Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.

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

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their forefather.

They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword; then they burned the city with fire.

Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.

The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised Yahweh’s offering.

As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”

There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone else; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city and lived in it.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.

youths in whom was no defect, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and who had the ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.

But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. David mourned for his son every day.

King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.”

the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;

Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

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

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

(but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?)

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,

Nevertheless the children of Israel didn’t drive out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath live within Israel to this day.

the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.

Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in safety, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no one in the land possessing authority, that might put them to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with anyone else.

In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.

He said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.

Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’

For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

He had a son, whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; and there was not among the children of Israel a better person than he. From his shoulders and upward he was taller than any of the people.

They ran and got him there. When he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;

After this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.

Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.” ’ ”

For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’ ”

Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the middle of the oak.

Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name. It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.

The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”

Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”

Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.

Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

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

Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!

“Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I won’t sit as a widow, neither will I know the loss of children.’

“ ‘ “In that day messengers will go out from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid. There will be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.”

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.