Loving your Children
10 passages
- Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Read it in context - Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Read it in context - Psalm 127:3–5
3Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward. 4Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one’s youth. 5Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate.
Read it in context - 1 Timothy 5:8
If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Read it in context - Psalm 27:10
Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.
Read it in context - Proverbs 13:24
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
Read it in context - John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Read it in context - Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
Read it in context - 1 Corinthians 13:13
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
Read it in context - Proverbs 29:15
A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
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