Parent and Child Relationships

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

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

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

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

Do everything without complaining or arguing,

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

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

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

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

Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.

My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,