Fathers Day

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 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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

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

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.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

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 →

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

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

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — 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 you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”

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

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 the Lord, for this is right.

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

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

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.

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.