puberty

¹¹When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I understood like a child, I thought like a child. But when I became a man, I put aside the things of a child.

³For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication, ⁴that each one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor, ⁵not in passions of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God,

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

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

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. ⁸And you shall bind them like a sign on your hand, and they shall be placed and shall move between your eyes. ⁹And you shall write them at the threshold and on the doors of your house.

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

¹⁹Therefore, repent and be converted, so that your sins may be wiped away.

⁷Persevere in discipline. God presents you to himself as sons. But what son is there, whom his father does not correct?

²⁴For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.

⁸Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother,

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

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

¹The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Joatham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. ²Listen, O heavens, and pay attention, O earth, for the Lord has spoken. I have nurtured and raised children, but they have spurned me. ³An ox knows his owner, and a donkey knows the manger of his lord, but Israel has not known me, and my people have not understood. ⁴Woe to a sinful nation, a people burdened by iniquity, a wicked offspring, accursed children. They have abandoned the Lord. They have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel. They been taken away backwards. ⁵For what reason shall I continue to strike you, as you increase transgressions? The entire head is feeble, and the entire heart is grieving. ⁶From the sole of the foot, even to the top of the head, there is no soundness within. Wounds and bruises and swelling sores: these are not bandaged, nor treated with medicine, nor soothed with oil.