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21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
View on BibleGateway20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
View on BibleGateway4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
View on BibleGateway14 Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
View on BibleGateway19 You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
View on BibleGateway29 In those days they shall no longer say: "'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'
View on BibleGateway17 and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared."
View on BibleGateway2 but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.
View on BibleGateway4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
View on BibleGateway3 Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
View on BibleGateway1 Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight,
View on BibleGateway10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.
View on BibleGateway4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth.
View on BibleGateway11 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!
View on BibleGateway27 For this child I prayed, and the LORD has granted me my petition that I made to him.
View on BibleGateway25 A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
View on BibleGateway4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
View on BibleGateway13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
View on BibleGateway3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
View on BibleGateway15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
View on BibleGateway15 For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
View on BibleGateway7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.
View on BibleGateway24 Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
View on BibleGateway9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
View on BibleGateway13 All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children.
View on BibleGateway27 When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.
View on BibleGateway19 These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham fathered Isaac,
View on BibleGateway9 For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.
View on BibleGateway2 shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly;
View on BibleGateway4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth.
View on BibleGateway19 These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham fathered Isaac,
View on BibleGateway27 When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.
View on BibleGateway3 Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
View on BibleGateway9 For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.
View on BibleGateway9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
View on BibleGateway19 You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
View on BibleGateway27 For this child I prayed, and the LORD has granted me my petition that I made to him.
View on BibleGateway1 Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight,
View on BibleGateway24 Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
View on BibleGateway25 A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
View on BibleGateway15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
View on BibleGateway13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
View on BibleGateway13 All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children.
View on BibleGateway29 In those days they shall no longer say: "'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'
View on BibleGateway11 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!
View on BibleGateway17 and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared."
View on BibleGateway4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
View on BibleGateway15 For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
View on BibleGateway14 Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
View on BibleGateway2 but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.
View on BibleGateway4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
View on BibleGateway20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
View on BibleGateway21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
View on BibleGateway7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.
View on BibleGateway4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
View on BibleGateway3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
View on BibleGateway10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.
View on BibleGateway2 shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly;
View on BibleGateway