Dads

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 →

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

“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.

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.

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?

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!

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 →

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he 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 →

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!”

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.

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 →

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

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong! — read the full passage →

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

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

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

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

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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.

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

Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

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.”

But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face; — read the full passage →

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

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

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

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

Let all that you do be done in love.

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 →