Bible verses about "parenting" | Coverdale

¹⁸ Chaste yi sonne whyle there is hope, but let not yi soule be moued to slaye hi.

⁸ My sonne, heare thy fathers doctryne, and forsake not the lawe of yi mother: ⁹ for that shal brynge grace vnto thy heade, & shalbe a cheyne aboute thy necke.

³ not as though ye were lordes ouer the parishes, but that ye be an ensample to the flocke:

⁷ Yf ye endure chastenynge, God offereth himselfe vnto you as vnto sonnes. What sonne is that, whom the father chasteneth not? ⁸ Yf ye be not vnder correccion (wherof all are partakers) then are ye bastardes and not sonnes. ⁹ Morouer seyenge we haue had fathers off oure flesh which corrected vs, & we gaue them reuerence, shulde we not then moch rather be in subieccion vnto ye father of spirituall giftes, yt we mighte lyue? ¹⁰ And they verely for a few dayes nurtred vs after their awne pleasure: but he lerneth vs vnto yt which is profitable, that we mighte receaue of his holynes. ¹¹ No maner chastisynge for the present tyme semeth to be ioyous, but greuous: neuertheles afterwarde it bringeth the quyete frute of righteousnes, vnto them which are exercysed therby.

⁶ And these wordes, which I commaude the this daie, shalt thou take to hert, ⁷ & shalt whet them vpon yi children, and shalt talke of them, wha thou syttest in thyne house, & whan thou walkest by the waie: whan thou lyest downe, & wha thou rysest vp. ⁸ And thou shalt bynde them for a signe vpon thine hande, and they shall be a token of remebraunce before thine eyes, ⁹ and thou shalt wryte them vpon the postes of thine house, and vpon thy gates.

¹⁷ Nurtoure thy sonne with correccion, and he shal comforte the, yee he shal do the good at thine hert.

¹³ Witholde not correccion from ye childe, for yf thou beatest him wt the rodde, he shal not dye therof.

³ It is but lost labour that ye ryse vp early, and take no rest, but eate the bred of carefulnesse: for loke to whom it pleaseth him, he geueth it in slepe.

¹⁵ The rodde and correccion mynistre wy?dome, but yf a childe be not loked vnto, he bryngeth his mother to shame.

⁷ Aboue all thinge shewe thy selfe an ensample off good workes, with vncorrupte doctryne, with honestye, with the wholsome

²⁴ He that spareth the rodde, hateth his sonne: but who so loueth him, holdeth him euer in nurtoure.

²¹ Ye fathers, rate not yor children, lest they be of a desperate mynde.

²⁰ And ye twolue stones which they had taken out of Iordane, dyd Iosua set vp at Gilgall, ²¹ & saide vnto the children of Israel: Whan youre children are their fathers herafter, & saie: What meane these stones? ²² Ye shall tell the, & saye: Israel wete drye thorow Iordane, ²³ what tyme as ye LORDE yor God dryed vp ye water of Iordane before you, vntyll ye were ouer: like as the LORDE yor God dyd in the reed see, which he dryed vp before vs, yt we mighte go thorow: ²⁴ that all the people vpon earth mighte knowe the hade of the LORDE, how mightie it is, to the intent that ye shulde allwaye feare the LORDE youre God.

⁶ Yf thou teachest a childe in his youth what waye he shulde go, he shall not leaue it when he is olde.

⁴ And ye fathers, prouoke not youre children vnto wrath, but brynge the vp in the nourtoure and informacion of the LORDE.