Proverbs 29:21

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

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

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?

You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

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.

“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

Tell him, ‘Long life to you! Peace be to you! Peace be to your house! Peace be to all that you have!

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

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his three hundred eighteen trained men, born in his house, and pursued as far as Dan.

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.

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

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.

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

Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Abram said, “Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”

He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.

Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,

Then Samuel said, “Bring Agag the king of the Amalekites here to me!” Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”

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.

“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

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.

The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.

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

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

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:

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

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

for an unloved woman when she is married, and a servant who is heir to her mistress.

I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.

Is Israel a slave? Is he born into slavery? Why has he become a captive?

I will cut off the beautiful and delicate one, the daughter of Zion.

Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.”

For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him.

They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

A certain centurion’s servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death.

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.

But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”

He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’

“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

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

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.”

Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.

But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,

When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually.

When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, “Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!”

Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, “Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him.”

When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.

The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.

But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”

Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.