What more can I say to you! You know me, your servant.

The righteous are guided and protected by the LORD, but the evil are on the way to their doom.

The LORD is in his holy temple; he has his throne in heaven. He watches people everywhere and knows what they are doing.

The LORD watches over the righteous and listens to their cries;

I am the good shepherd. As the Father knows me and I know the Father, in the same way I know my sheep and they know me. And I am willing to die for them.

A third time Jesus said, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter became sad because Jesus asked him the third time, "Do you love me?" and so he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you!" Jesus said to him, "Take care of my sheep.

But the solid foundation that God has laid cannot be shaken; and on it are written these words: "The Lord knows those who are his" and "Those who say that they belong to the Lord must turn away from wrongdoing."

On that same day Abraham obeyed God and circumcised his son Ishmael and all the other males in his household, including the slaves born in his home and those he had bought.

and his son Ishmael was thirteen.

together with all of Abraham's slaves.

Be on your guard! Make certain that you do not forget, as long as you live, what you have seen with your own eyes. Tell your children and your grandchildren

about the day you stood in the presence of the LORD your God at Mount Sinai, when he said to me, 'Assemble the people. I want them to hear what I have to say, so that they will learn to obey me as long as they live and so that they will teach their children to do the same.'

Never forget these commands that I am giving you today.

Teach them to your children. Repeat them when you are at home and when you are away, when you are resting and when you are working.

Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you are resting and when you are working.

Then you and your children will live a long time in the land that the LORD your God promised to give to your ancestors. You will live there as long as there is a sky above the earth.

he said, "Be sure to obey all these commands that I have given you today. Repeat them to your children, so that they may faithfully obey all of God's teachings.

If you are not willing to serve him, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living. As for my family and me, we will serve the LORD."

And to Solomon he said, "My son, I charge you to acknowledge your father's God and to serve him with an undivided heart and a willing mind. He knows all our thoughts and desires. If you go to him, he will accept you; but if you turn away from him, he will abandon you forever.

The morning after each feast, Job would get up early and offer sacrifices for each of his children in order to purify them. He always did this because he thought that one of them might have sinned by insulting God unintentionally.

I am going to use wise sayings and explain mysteries from the past,

We will not keep them from our children; we will tell the next generation about the LORD's power and his great deeds and the wonderful things he has done.

so that the next generation might learn them and in turn should tell their children.

They will not be like their ancestors, a rebellious and disobedient people, whose trust in God was never firm and who did not remain faithful to him.

Son, do what your father tells you and never forget what your mother taught you.

Their teaching will lead you when you travel, protect you at night, and advise you during the day.

Teach children how they should live, and they will remember it all their life.

It is the living who praise you, As I praise you now. Parents tell their children how faithful you are.

Parents, do not treat your children in such a way as to make them angry. Instead, raise them with Christian discipline and instruction.

he must be able to manage his own family well and make his children obey him with all respect.

For if a man does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of the church of God?

A church helper must have only one wife, and be able to manage his children and family well.

I remember the sincere faith you have, the kind of faith that your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice also had. I am sure that you have it also.

and you remember that ever since you were a child, you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

I, the LORD God of Israel, promised in the past that your family and your clan would serve me as priests for all time. But now I say that I won't have it any longer! Instead, I will honor those who honor me, and I will treat with contempt those who despise me.

Listen, the time is coming when I will kill all the young men in your family and your clan, so that no man in your family will live to be old.

For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship came to me

and said, 'Don't be afraid, Paul! You must stand before the Emperor. And God in his goodness to you has spared the lives of all those who are sailing with you.'

But Paul said to the army officer and soldiers, "If the sailors don't stay on board, you have no hope of being saved."