Proverbs 22:15

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

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—

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

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.”

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.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

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

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

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

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.”

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

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

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

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.

By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

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;

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

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 smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

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

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

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

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

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

Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

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

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

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

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

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

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.

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,

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.

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!”

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?