1 A Song of Ascents.
2 Blessed is every one who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways!
3 You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.
4 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
6 And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart;
7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
28 May God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine.
29 Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be every one who curses you, and blessed be every one who blesses you!"
28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."
4 If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn their religious duty to their own family and make some return to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
21 When a woman is in travail she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child is born into the world.
52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man.
24 He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
2 "Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise),
3 "that it may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth."
14 But when Jesus saw it he was indignant, and said to them, "Let the children come to me, do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
25 though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong, for the LORD is the stay of his hand.
26 I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging bread.
1 Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight;
4 Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
3 It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.
4 Lo, sons are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward.
5 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the sons of one's youth. [ (Psalms 127:6) Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate. ]
24 The LORD bless you and keep you:
25 The LORD make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you:
26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.
3 For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring.
4 They shall spring up like grass amid waters, like willows by flowing streams.
7 A righteous man who walks in his integrity-- blessed are his sons after him!
13 All your sons shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the prosperity of your sons.
11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
39 I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for their own good and the good of their children after them.
13 as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
1 See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
6 Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of sons is their fathers.
15 The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
39 Moreover your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there, and to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.
5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
13 even the darkness is not dark to thee, the night is bright as the day; for darkness is as light with thee.
14 For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb.
15 I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful. Wonderful are thy works! Thou knowest me right well;
16 my frame was not hidden from thee, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth.
12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
12 Rescue me from the cruel sword, and deliver me from the hand of aliens, whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
10 Yet thou art he who took me from the womb; thou didst keep me safe upon my mother's breasts.
21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.
4 things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.
1 A Song of Ascents.
2 Blessed is every one who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways!
3 You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.
2 His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
14 You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.