Proverbs 22:6

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

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

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.

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

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

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

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

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’

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

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

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

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.”

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

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

Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

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

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

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.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

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—

“Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.

Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,

Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.

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

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

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.

If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

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

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?

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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.

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?

The man bowed his head, and worshiped Yahweh.

When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh.

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.

and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”

Whoever rebels against your commandment, and doesn’t listen to your words in all that you command him shall himself be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”

But Hannah didn’t go up, for she said to her husband, “Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and stay there forever.”

Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.

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

Come and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

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

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.

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;”

The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

Jesus summoned them, saying, “Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected.

Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.

“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them:

“Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.

Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

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

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.”

Manoah said, “Now let your words happen. What shall the child’s way of life and mission be?”

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!”

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

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

When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?”