Fathers Who Leave Their Children

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

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.

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

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

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof: — read the full passage →

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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

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

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — 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.

For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob. — read the full passage →

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them; — read the full passage →

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness. — 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?

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 →

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

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

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

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 →

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — read the full passage →

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

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, — read the full passage →

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. — read the full passage →

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray? — read the full passage →

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

A man’s foes will be those of his own household.

The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw: — read the full passage →

I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. Lover — read the full passage →

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

that he would overthrow their seed among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.

Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name! — read the full passage →

Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. — read the full passage →

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. — read the full passage →

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children; — read the full passage →

Then I said to you, “Don’t dread, neither be afraid of them. — read the full passage →

“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, — read the full passage →

He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. — read the full passage →

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”