Parents and children

Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

⁷ And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

⁸ Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

⁹ Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.

¹⁸ Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

¹⁹ Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

²⁰ Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates,

²¹ so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.

Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

³ Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.

⁴ Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one’s youth.

⁵ Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate.

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

² “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),

³ “that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”

⁴ Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

The king was shaken and went up to the gate chamber and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

²⁰ Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

²¹ Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.

Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”

Then Manoah asked, “When your words come to pass, what will be the boy’s rule of life and mission?”

⁸ Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

⁹ For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.

²² A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.

²³ Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.

²⁴ He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.

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

²² Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

²³ Invest in truth and never sell it— in wisdom and instruction and understanding.

²⁴ The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.

²⁵ May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!

¹⁵ A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.

¹⁶ When the wicked thrive, rebellion increases; but the righteous will see their downfall.

¹⁷ Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will bring delight to your soul.

As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

²⁰ In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”

²¹ then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

²⁶ Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”

²⁷ Then the king gave his ruling: “Give the living baby to the first woman. By no means should you kill him; she is his mother.”

If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

²¹ Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’

²² you are to tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’

⁴⁸ When His parents saw Him, they were astonished. “Child, why have You done this to us?” His mother asked. “Your father and I have been anxiously searching for You.”

⁴⁹ “Why were you looking for Me?” He asked. “Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house ?”

⁵⁰ But they did not understand the statement He was making to them.

⁵¹ Then He went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But His mother treasured up all these things in her heart.

Suddenly a man in the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg You to look at my son, for he is my only child.

¹⁴ When they came to the crowd, a man came up to Jesus and knelt before Him.

¹⁵ “Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water.

²² A synagogue leader named Jairus arrived, and seeing Jesus, he fell at His feet

²³ and pleaded with Him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Please come and place Your hands on her, so that she will be healed and live.”

²¹ Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has this been with him?” “From childhood,” he said.

²² “It often throws him into the fire or into the water, trying to kill him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

²³ “If You can?” echoed Jesus. “All things are possible to him who believes!”

²⁴ Immediately the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe; help my unbelief!”

⁴ But the king covered his face and cried out at the top of his voice, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”

⁵ Then Joab went into the house and said to the king, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, of your wives, and of your concubines.

⁶ You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!

²⁶ When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’

²⁷ you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.

³⁰ So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life,

³¹ sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

Joseph said to his father, “They are the sons God has given me in this place.” So Jacob said, “Please bring them to me, that I may bless them.”

⁴⁷ When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged Him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.

⁴⁸ Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe.”

⁴⁹ “Sir,” the official said, “come down before my child dies.”

⁵⁰ “Go,” said Jesus. “Your son will live.” The man took Jesus at His word and departed.

²⁵ Near the cross of Jesus stood His mother and her sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene.

²⁶ When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.”

²⁷ Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” So from that hour, this disciple took her into his home.

² He had seven sons and three daughters,

³ and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.

⁴ Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

⁵ And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.

¹⁸ While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

¹⁹ when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

⁴¹ Just then a synagogue leader named Jairus came and fell at Jesus’ feet. He begged Him to come to his house,

⁴² because his only daughter, who was about twelve, was dying. As Jesus went with him, the crowds pressed around Him,

⁴³ including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.

While Jesus was saying these things, a synagogue leader came and knelt before Him. “My daughter has just died,” he said. “But come and place Your hand on her, and she will live.”

¹³ Then the little children were brought to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them and pray for them. And the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

¹⁴ But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them! For the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

¹⁵ And after He had placed His hands on them, He went on from there.

Instead, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit soon heard about Jesus, and she came and fell at His feet.

Someone in the crowd replied, “Teacher, I brought You my son, who has a spirit that makes him mute.