Children’s Responsibility
10 passages
- Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Read it in context - Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Read it in context - Psalm 127:3
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
Read it in context - Proverbs 29:15
A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
Read it in context - Ephesians 6:2
“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),
Read it in context - Colossians 3:21
Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.
Read it in context - Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
Read it in context - 2 Corinthians 12:14
See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
Read it in context - Proverbs 22:15
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Read it in context - Proverbs 23:13–14
13Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die. 14Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.
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