Being A Good Father

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

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

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.

“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 →

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

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!

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

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

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!”

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.

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

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

See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

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

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

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

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.

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

“In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

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.

one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.

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,

“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 →

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will, — read the full passage →

A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

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

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

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

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,—

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.