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Parents And Children

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Ephesians 6:4

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

Colossians 3:21

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

Ephesians 6:1

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

Colossians 3:20

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

Ephesians 6:1–4

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

1 Timothy 5:8

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.

Ephesians 6:1–3

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

Titus 2:4

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

Hebrews 12:11

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.

1 Peter 4:8

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

Matthew 19:14

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

Matthew 18:10

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.

2 Corinthians 12:14

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

1 Timothy 3:4

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

Mark 9:36–37

He took a little child, and set him in their midst. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 11:3

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.

Mark 10:13–16

They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. — read the full passage →

John 3:16

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.

2 Timothy 3:14–15

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 →

Matthew 19:13–14

Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. — read the full passage →

Hebrews 12:7

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?

Matthew 18:2–6

Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in their midst, — read the full passage →

Hebrews 12:7–11

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? — read the full passage →

Ephesians 6:2–3

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: — read the full passage →

Ephesians 6:2

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

1 Timothy 5:4

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.

Matthew 21:15–16

But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant, — read the full passage →

2 Timothy 3:16

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

2 Timothy 3:15

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

Luke 18:28–30

Peter said, “Look, we have left everything, and followed you.” — read the full passage →

Matthew 10:21

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Philippians 2:14

Do all things without murmurings and disputes,

Luke 1:37

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

1 John 3:16

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

1 Peter 3:7

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.

Ephesians 6:1–24

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

James 1:19

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

1 Timothy 5:1

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

1 Corinthians 4:21

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

1 Peter 5:1–14

I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed. — read the full passage →

Revelation 1:1–20

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 →

Acts 17:10–11

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

John 5:23

that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.

John 5:18–30

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God. — read the full passage →

Luke 19:15–24

“When he had come back again, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business. — read the full passage →

Matthew 17:5

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

Matthew 3:17

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

Colossians 3:20–21

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord. — read the full passage →

2 Timothy 3:16–17

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

1 Timothy 5:16

If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

Titus 2:3–5

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 →

Hebrews 11:20

By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

2 Thessalonians 1:1–12

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

James 1:17

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.

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