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Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Job 42:15 OT

  In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

• 2 Corinthians 12:14 NT

  Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

• 1 Timothy 5:8 NT

  But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

• 1 Timothy 3:4 NT

  one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

• 1 Timothy 3:12 NT

  Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

• Proverbs 13:24 OT

  One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

• Proverbs 19:18 OT

  Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

• Proverbs 23:13 OT

  Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

• Proverbs 29:17 OT

  Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

• Hebrews 12:7 NT

  It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

• Colossians 3:21 NT

  Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

• Genesis 24:1-4 OT

  Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things. Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh. I will make you swear by…

• Genesis 28:1 OT

  Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

• Genesis 28:2 OT

  Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

• Proverbs 10:1 OT

  The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

• Proverbs 17:25 OT

  A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

• Genesis 17:18 OT

  Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”

• 1 Chronicles 29:19 OT

  and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”

• Job 1:5 OT

  It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons…

• 2 Samuel 12:16 OT

  David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground.

• Mark 5:23 NT

  and begged him much, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live.”

• John 4:46 NT

  Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.

• John 4:49 NT

  The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

• Proverbs 31:28 OT

  Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her: