Colossians 3:20-21. Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
Ephesians 6:1-3. 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 be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”
Ephesians 6:4. Fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Mark 10:14-15. “God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these. Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”
Matthew 21:15-16. When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant, and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?’”
Proverbs 20:20. Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Proverbs 22:6. Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Psalm 25:7. Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.
1 Corinthians 14:20. Don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
1 Timothy 4:12. Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
2 Chronicles 34:1-3. Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn aside to the right hand or to the left. For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherah poles, and the engraved images, and the molten images.
2 Timothy 2:22. Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
PIB Scriptures are derived from the World English Bible
