Proverbs 28:7

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

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

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

Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

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 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.

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

He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears—behold, the silver is with me. I took it.” His mother said, “May Yahweh bless my son!”

For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

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

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

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.

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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.

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

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

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

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

Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

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

Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

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

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

They shall not take for their wives a widow, or her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.

They took the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, and see if it is your son’s tunic or not.”

Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!

“ ‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.

The king’s favor is toward a servant who deals wisely, but his wrath is toward one who causes shame.

He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “It’s not wrong,” is a partner with a destroyer.

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

There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.

and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

People give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.”

The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ He divided his livelihood between them.

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’

But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ ”

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

When they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.”

Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

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

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.