Your efforts to “go on bringing them up in the discipline and mental - regulating of Jehovah ” will likely have little effect if you yourself are not submitting to God’s discipline and allowing your life to be regulated by it.
Pūles viņus ” audzināt un pamācīt.. būt paklausīgiem tam Kungam ” neko nedos, ja tēvs pats nedzīvos pēc Dieva normām.