Parental Love

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

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

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

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

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.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

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 →

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

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

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

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

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.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

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

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

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

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;

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort 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 each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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

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

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

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

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

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

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

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

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

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

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.

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

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

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

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

“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.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

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

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

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

Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out. — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — 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 →

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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 →

We love him, because he first loved us.

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

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.

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

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

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ — read the full passage →

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

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

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite: — read the full passage →

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

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,

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. — read the full passage →

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. — read the full passage →

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

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 →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

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

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →