Topic

Being A Good Parent

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Ephesians 6:4

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Psalms 127:3–5

Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; Andthe fruit of the womb ishisreward. — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 6:5–7

and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:21

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

Ephesians 6:1–4

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

Philippians 2:4

not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

Matthew 7:12

All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Psalms 1:1–6

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers: — read the full passage →

Isaiah 1:1–31

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Hebrews 12:5–11

and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him; — read the full passage →

John 14:1–31

Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me. — read the full passage →

John 3:12–20

If I told you earthly things and ye believe not, how shall ye believe if I tell you heavenly things? — read the full passage →

Luke 11:11

And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serpent?

John 3:16–17

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Luke 13:34

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her own brood under her wings, and ye would not!

John 11:35

Jesus wept.

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