Fatherhood

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.

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

“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 →

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

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

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?

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

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

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?

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

“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.

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

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

You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin; — read the full passage →

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

“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 →

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.

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

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.”

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

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.

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

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

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 →

“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword. — read the full passage →

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

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.

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

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

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

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.”

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money; — read the full passage →

‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’ — read the full passage →

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

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

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 →

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’