Parental Love

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

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

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. — read the full passage →

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

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

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

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: — read the full passage →

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: — read the full passage →

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

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 let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

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

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

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.

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

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

O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself. — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. — read the full passage →

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: — read the full passage →

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons; — read the full passage →

We love him, because he first loved us.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; — read the full passage →

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek: — read the full passage →

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. — read the full passage →

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

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

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim–zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite: — read the full passage →

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. — read the full passage →

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. — read the full passage →

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

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

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: — read the full passage →

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: — read the full passage →

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. — read the full passage →