child training

⁶The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.

¹³Do not be willing to take away discipline from a child. For if you strike him with the rod, he will not die. ¹⁴You will strike him with the rod, and so shall you deliver his soul from Hell.

²⁴He who spares the rod hates his son. But he who loves him urgently instructs him.

⁴And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.

⁶And these words, which I instruct to you this day, shall be in your heart. ⁷And you shall explain them to your sons. And you shall meditate upon them sitting in your house, and walking on a journey, when lying down and when rising up.

⁷And you shall explain them to your sons. And you shall meditate upon them sitting in your house, and walking on a journey, when lying down and when rising up.

⁴I have no greater grace than this, when I hear that my sons are walking in the truth.

²⁰My son, preserve the precepts of your father, and do not dismiss the law of your mother. ²¹Bind them to your heart unceasingly, and encircle them around your throat.

¹⁸Teach your son; do not despair. But do not set your soul toward putting him to death.

¹My son, do not forget my law, but let your heart guard my precepts.

²⁰My son, preserve the precepts of your father, and do not dismiss the law of your mother. ²¹Bind them to your heart unceasingly, and encircle them around your throat. ²²When you walk, let them keep step with you. When you sleep, let them guard you. And when you keep watch, speak with them.

³Behold, the inheritance of the Lord is sons, the reward is the fruit of the womb. ⁴Like arrows in the hand of the powerful, so are the sons of those who have been cast out. ⁵Blessed is the man who has filled his desire from these things. He will not be confounded when he speaks to his enemies at the gate.

⁵And you have forgotten the consolation which speaks to you like sons, saying: “My son, do not be willing to neglect the discipline of the Lord. Neither should you become weary, while being rebuked by him.” ⁶For whomever the Lord loves, he chastises. And every son whom he accepts, he scourges. ⁷Persevere in discipline. God presents you to himself as sons. But what son is there, whom his father does not correct? ⁸But if you are without that discipline in which all have become sharers, then you are of adultery, and you are not sons. ⁹Then, too, we have certainly had the fathers of our flesh as instructors, and we reverenced them. Should we not obey the Father of spirits all the more, and so live? ¹⁰And indeed, for a few days and according to their own wishes, they instructed us. But he does so to our benefit, so that we may receive his sanctification.

²¹Fathers, do not provoke your children to indignation, lest they lose heart.

¹⁵The rod and its correction distribute wisdom. But the child who is left to his own will, brings shame to his mother.

²⁰Children, obey your parents in all things. For this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

¹⁵Foolishness has been bound to the heart of a child, and a rod of discipline shall cause it to flee.

¹⁷Teach your son, and he will refresh you, and he will give delight to your soul.

¹²This is my precept: that you love one another, just as I have loved you. ¹³No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.

⁸If a man will afflict God, then you greatly afflict me. And you have said, “In what way, do we afflict you?” In tithes and in first-fruits. ⁹And you have been cursed with privation, and you greatly afflict me, even your entire people. ¹⁰Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, and let there be food in my house. And test me about this, says the Lord, as to whether I will not open to you the floodgates of heaven, and pour out to you a blessing, all the way to abundance.

¹¹A child may be understood by his interests: whether his works may be clean and upright.