Proverbs 13:24

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

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.

He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

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

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

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

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

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

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

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

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

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

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

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,

Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

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

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?

If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to 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.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

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

“ ‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’ He didn’t acknowledge his brothers, nor did he know his own children; for they have observed your word, and keep your covenant.

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.

I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

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

Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

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

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

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

The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

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

Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. He takes an oath, but dares not testify.

“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.

Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.

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.

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

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

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.

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,

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

“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.

Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”