Parental Love
9 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 - Colossians 3:14
And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.
Read it in context - Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Read it in context - Psalm 103:13
As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
Read it in context - 1 John 4:8
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Read it in context - Romans 5:8
But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Read it in context - Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
Read it in context - Proverbs 13:24
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
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