Esther 2:7

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

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

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

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

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

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

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

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.

To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. They gave no portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for their livestock and for their property.

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.

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

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

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—

Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.

Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

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

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

For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.”

Don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant,” says Yahweh; “for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.”

The Lord Yahweh says: “This shall be the border, by which you shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.

Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come; and this among men, Lord Yahweh!

The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.

(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);

How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the ends of the earth—

Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.

“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

John answered them, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know.

to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,

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

Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.

David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel’s sake.

to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful.

Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.

Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai, like she did when she was brought up by him.

For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.