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Fathers

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Ephesians 6:4

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Colossians 3:21

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

Hebrews 12:7

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?

Matthew 7:9–11

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

Matthew 23:9

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

3 John 1:4

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

Luke 15:20

“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.

1 Corinthians 16:13

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

John 3:16

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.

1 Thessalonians 2:11–12

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

Ephesians 5:25–33

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

1 John 3:1

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.

Ephesians 6:1–3

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

Luke 15:20–24

“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 →

John 14:6

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

John 14:2

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.

James 1:17

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.

Luke 12:32

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

Matthew 6:26

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?

1 Corinthians 8:6

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.

Ephesians 6:11–18

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

2 Corinthians 6:18

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

1 Corinthians 13:1–13

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 →

Ephesians 6:1–4

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

Matthew 10:29–31

“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 →

1 John 2:15

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.

Colossians 3:20

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

Philippians 4:20

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

Romans 8:32

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?

John 14:21

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.”

Matthew 26:53

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

John 14:23

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.

John 14:13

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

John 1:12

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

John 10:28–30

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

John 1:18

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.

Matthew 6:6

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.

Romans 8:19

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

John 17:24

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.

Matthew 15:4

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

1 Timothy 5:8

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.

Romans 12:17–21

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

Hebrews 12:11

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.

1 Timothy 5:1–25

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

1 Peter 4:8

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

1 Timothy 3:2–5

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

Galatians 4:6

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

John 14:12

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.

Matthew 28:19

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

Matthew 6:17–18

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

Romans 8:15

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!”

Philippians 4:6

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

Luke 1:37

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Matthew 6:8

Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

John 3:16–17

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 →

Ephesians 4:6

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

2 Timothy 3:16–17

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

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