Proverbs 23:13

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

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

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

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?”

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.

On the next day, Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”

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,

They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

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.

His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

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

He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.

Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

“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.’

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.

Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you will have known that the heavens do rule.

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”

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!

He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

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.”