The land of a certain rich man was very productive. And he began reasoning to himself, saying, “What shall I do, since I have no place to store my crops?” And he said, “This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all…
Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but…
Now when [Hannah] had weaned [Samuel], she took him up with her...and brought him to the house of the LORD in Shiloh, although the child was young...And she said, “...For this boy I prayed, and the LORD has given me my petition which I asked of Him. So I have also dedicated him to the…
Fathers, do not exasperate your children, that they may not lose heart....Do not provoke your children to anger; but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. (Col 3:21, Eph 6:4). [For] he who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently....Do not hold back discipline…
He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently. (Proverbs 13:24). Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; the rod of discipline will remove it far from him. (Proverbs 22:15). Discipline your son while there is hope, and do not desire his death. (Proverbs 19:18).…
Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is is old he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6). These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in…
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands…
The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die.” ...And the serpent said to the woman, “You surely shall…
The Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron. (1 Timothy 4:1-2). The sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed,…
Christ did not enter...heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the end…