| Gen. 18:17-19 |
"And the Lord said, 'Shall I hide from Abraham what I
am doing, since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all
the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? For I have known him, in
order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they
keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice, that the Lord may
bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.' " |
| Exod. 24:12 |
"Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Come up to Me on the
mountain and be there; and I will give you tablets of stone, and the law and
commandments which I have written, that you may teach them.' " |
| Deut. 4:9-10 |
"Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep
yourself, lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart
from your heart all the days of your life. And teach them to your children and
your grandchildren, especially concerning the day you stood before the Lord
your God in Horeb, when the Lord said to me, 'Gather the people to Me, and I
will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they
live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.' " |
| Deut. 4:40 |
"You shall therefore keep His statutes and His
commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and your
children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the
Lord your God is giving you for all time." |
| Deut. 6:4-9 |
"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and
with all your might. And these words which I command you today shall be in your
heart; you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them
when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and
when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be
as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your
house and on your gates." |
| Deut. 8:2-3 |
"And you shall remember that the Lord your
God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and
test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His
commandments or not. So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with
manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you
know that man shall not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of the Lord." |
| Deut. 11:18-21 |
" Therefore you shall *lay up (Lit. put) these words
of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand,
and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your
children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the
way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. And you shall write them on the
doorposts of your house and on your gates, that your days and the days of your
children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers
to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth." |
| Psa. 119:105 |
"Your word is a lamp to my feet
And a light to my
path." |
| Prov. 4:20-22 |
"My son, give attention to my words;
Incline your
ear to my sayings.
Do not let them depart from your eyes;
Keep them in
the midst of your heart;
For they are life to those who find
them,
And
health to all their flesh." |
| Matt. 5:19 |
"Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of
these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of
heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the
kingdom of heaven." |
| Rom. 15:4 |
"For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the *patience (perseverance) and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope." |
| 1 Cor. 10:11 |
"Now all these things happened to them as
examples, and they were written for our *admonition (instruction), on whom the
ends of the ages have come." |
| 2 Tim. 3:16-17 |
"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and
is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for *instruction
(training, discipline) in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete,
thoroughly equipped for every good work."
 Note: We are exhorted to keep God's
commandments, and teach them to our children. They were written for us for reproof
to enable spiritual growth that we may live long, and be blessed. |
