Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: And the fruit of the womb is his reward.
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; So are children of the youth.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: They shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: Thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.
Train up a child in the way he should go: And when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the table of thine heart:
So shalt thou find favour and good understanding In the sight of God and man.
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: And he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; Even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: And his children shall have a place of refuge.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.