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Being A Father

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Ephesians 6:4

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Colossians 3:21

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

John 16:13

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

Hebrews 12:7

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?

1 John 3:1

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

Mark 16:1–20

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him. — read the full passage →

2 Timothy 3:16–17

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:20

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

1 Corinthians 16:13

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Acts 2:38

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Luke 15:11–32

He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →

Matthew 28:1–20

Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. — read the full passage →

Hebrews 12:5–11

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; — read the full passage →

Galatians 3:28

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:15

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Acts 22:16

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

Mark 16:16

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Matthew 7:9–11

Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? — read the full passage →

Revelation 1:1

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

3 John 1:4

I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.

1 John 4:16

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

James 1:22

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Hebrews 12:11

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

Hebrews 12:3

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Titus 2:4

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Titus 2:1–15

But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — read the full passage →

1 Thessalonians 2:11–12

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children, — read the full passage →

Philippians 2:5–7

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 6:1–4

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 3:14–15

For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

Galatians 5:1

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

2 Corinthians 6:18

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

Romans 1:26–27

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →

Acts 15:1–2

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.” — read the full passage →

John 6:22–40

On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn’t entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone. — read the full passage →

John 3:16–17

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Luke 11:11–12

“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? — read the full passage →

Matthew 7:11

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Matthew 6:33

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

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