Judges 13:12

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

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

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—

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

Therefore I have also given him to Yahweh. As long as he lives he is given to Yahweh.” He worshiped Yahweh there.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

For I have kept Yahweh’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

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

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;”

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

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

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.

He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

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;

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

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.”

Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

and that their children, who have not known, may hear and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh and also with men.

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!”

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

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

I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.

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

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

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

“I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”

But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.”

He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these stay in the ship, you can’t be saved.”

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

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

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,