1 Samuel 3:13

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

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

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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

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

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

They said to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”

My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

“But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

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.

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?’

before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.

Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

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

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

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

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,

Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May Yahweh the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.”

When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.

that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”

He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with a handsome face and good appearance. Yahweh said, “Arise! Anoint him, for this is he.”

His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.

He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

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

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

He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.

“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations.

I, Yahweh, have spoken it. It will happen, and I will do it. I won’t go back. I won’t spare. I won’t repent. According to your ways, and according to your doings, they will judge you,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not fair.” House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’ ”

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

certain wicked fellows have gone out from among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods,” which you have not known,

After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.

As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain wicked fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we can have sex with him!”

Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.”

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.

His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, “Why have you done so?” and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom.

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

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.

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

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

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

One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

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

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.

“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

saying, “Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forever more.

“You, son of man, the Lord Yahweh says to the land of Israel, ‘An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land.

An end has come. The end has come! It awakes against you. Behold, it comes.

Therefore I have poured out my indignation on them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way on their heads,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Through his policy he will cause deceit to prosper in his hand. He will magnify himself in his heart, and he will destroy many in their security. He will also stand up against the prince of princes; but he will be broken without hand.

Now when they fall, they will be helped with a little help; but many will join themselves to them with flatteries.

But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

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.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”

They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?

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

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.

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.

This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.

When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, “Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! He will have authority over my people.”

Now, behold, the king walks before you. I am old and gray-headed. Behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth to this day.

The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return your wickedness on your own head.

and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to obey his law and command.

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.”

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them.

for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.

Now is the end on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.

“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin.

“In his place a contemptible person will stand up, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom; but he will come in time of security, and will obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

“Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.

Yahweh has commanded concerning you: “No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, I will cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”

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?

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.