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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.

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

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? — 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. — 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 →

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

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?

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

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

“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 →

“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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. — read the full passage →

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

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.

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

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?

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?

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.

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.

Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

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

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. — 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.

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 →

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

“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 →

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

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, — read the full passage →

the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,

and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

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

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

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; — read the full passage →