Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch over your souls as those who must give an account. To this end, allow them to lead with joy and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”

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

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

Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.

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.

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

Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.

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

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

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’

An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?

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

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Remind the believers of these things, charging them before God to avoid quarreling over words, which succeeds only in leading the listeners to ruin.

The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”

This is the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.” Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him. Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted. . . .

I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; she is to remain quiet.

Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.

So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.

Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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

“Whose image is this,” He asked, “and whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they answered. So Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”