Fathers And Daughters

And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. — read the full passage →

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

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.

When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.

When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.

Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: — read the full passage →

And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben–ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.

And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

These are the statutes, which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father’s house.

And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.

For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.

Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?

He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

And Eleazar Aaron’s son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.

For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

If a woman also vow a vow unto the Lord, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth; — read the full passage →

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.

And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.

And he said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.

Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. — read the full passage →

Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; — read the full passage →

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; — read the full passage →

And the next day we that were of Paul’s company departed, and came unto Cesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him. — read the full passage →

The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness.

And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth.

Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son’s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

And the next day we that were of Paul’s company departed, and came unto Cesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him.

The nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or of thy daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness.

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;

And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. — read the full passage →

In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: — read the full passage →

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction: — read the full passage →