How to train your children

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• Proverbs 22:6

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

• Ephesians 6:4

  And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

• Deuteronomy 11:19

  And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

• Proverbs 29:15

  The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

• Proverbs 29:17

  Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

• Proverbs 13:24

  He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

• Proverbs 22:15

  Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

• Psalms 78:5–7

  For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

• Colossians 3:21

  Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

• Psalms 127:3

  Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

• Psalms 127:3–5

  Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

• Ephesians 6:2

  Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

• 2 Timothy 3:16

  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

• Ephesians 6:1–4

  Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. …

• Proverbs 23:13–14

  Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

• Titus 2:4

  That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

• Ephesians 6:1

  Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

• Psalms 34:11

  Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

• Acts 5:29

  Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

• 2 Timothy 2:15

  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

• Deuteronomy 4:9

  Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;

• Hebrews 12:5–11

  And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? …

• Hebrews 12:11

  Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

• Ephesians 6:3

  That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

• Deuteronomy 6:5

  And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

• Mark 16:16

  He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

• Proverbs 18:12

  Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

• Luke 1:44

  For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.

• 1 John 4:1

  Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

• Matthew 15:4

  For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

• John 3:16

  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

• Isaiah 54:13

  And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

• Genesis 18:19

  For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

• Proverbs 19:18

  Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

• Deuteronomy 6:7

  And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

• Proverbs 1:8–9

  My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

• Deuteronomy 6:6–7

  And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

• Colossians 3:20

  Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

• John 4:24

  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

• Luke 2:51

  And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.