Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers. Train up a child in the way he should go even when he is old he will not depart from it. Colossians 3:21įathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. Proverbs 29:17ĭiscipline your son, and he will give you rest he will give delight to your heart. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! Proverbs 3:12įor the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. Deuteronomy 6:6-9Īnd these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck. 1 Timothy 5:8Īnyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. It does not insist on its own way it is not irritable or resentful it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love is patient and kind love does not envy or boast it is not arrogant or rude. Malachi 4:6Īnd he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. The Lord your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.' Ephesians 6:4įathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Then I said to you, 'Do not be in dread or afraid of them. The righteous who walks in his integrity - blessed are his children after him! Deuteronomy 1:29-31 No one has ever seen God but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done. 1 Thessalonians 2:11-12įor you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory. I thank my God in all my remembrance of you. Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “That is no transgression,” is a companion to a man who destroys. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Titus 2:1-2īut as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |