“Fathers do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.”
Ephesians 6:4
“Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.”
Proverbs 22:6
“Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.”
Colossians 3:21
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
Proverbs (ch. XXII, v. 6)
“For 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.”
1Thessalonians 2:11-12
“Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?”
Hebrews 12:7
“Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.”
Proverbs 19:18
“Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.”
Psalms (ch. CXXVIII, v. 3)
“And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and cet us eat and celebrate. For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.”
Luke 15:20 -23
“A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.”
Proverbs (ch. X, v. 1)
“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
Ephesians 6:4
“If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in Heaven give good things to them that ask him?”
Matthew 7:11