Genesis 17:23 – And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had unto him. (KJV)

Genesis 18:19 – For I know him, that he will command his and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgement… (KJV)

Deuteronomy 11:19 – And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you rise up. (AMP)

Psalm 127:3 – Lo, children are a heritage from the LORD: and fruit of the womb is his reward. (KJV)

Proverbs 13:24 – He who spares his rod [of discipline] hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines diligently and punishes him early. (AMP)

1 Samuel 3:13 – For I have told him that I will judge his house forever foe the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not. (KJV)

Proverbs 19:18 – Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. (KJV)

Proverbs 22:6 – Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (KJV)

Proverbs 22:15 – Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. (KJV)

Proverbs 23:13-14: Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt deliver his soul from hell. (KJV)

Proverbs 29:17 – Correct thy son and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul. (KJV)

Isaiah 38:19 – The Father to the children shall make known thy truth. (KJV)

Proverbs 3:1 – My son, forget not my law.

Ephesians 6:4 – And ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Colossians 3:21 – Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Proverbs 29:15 – A child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Titus 2:2-6: Urge the older men to be temperate, venerable (serious), sensible, self-controlled, and sound in the faith, in the love, and in the steadfastness and patience of [Christ]. Bid the older women similarly to be reverent and devout in their deportment as becomes those engaged in sacred service, not slanderers or slaves to drink. They are to give good counsel and be teachers of what is right and noble. So that they will wisely tech young women to be sane and sober of mind (temperate, disciplined) and to love their husbands and their children, to be self-controlled, chaste, homemakers, good-natured (kindhearted), adapting and subordinating themselves to their husbands, that the word of God may not be exposed to reproach (blasphemed or discredited). In a similar way, urge the younger men to be self-restrained and to behave prudently [taking life seriously]. (AMP)

Leviticus 19:29 – Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness. (KJV)

1 Timothy 5:8 – But if any man provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. (KJV)         

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