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.
He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →
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 →
When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you.” — 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 →
“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 →
I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.
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?
Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise. — 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 →
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.
When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you.” — read the full passage →
I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. — read the full passage →
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 →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — 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 →
Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →
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.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — 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 →
Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
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.
When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, “What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!”
His mother and brothers came to him, and they could not come near him for the crowd. — read the full passage →
His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover. — read the full passage →
Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
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