Colossians 3:21
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21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
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Proverbs 4:1-4
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A Father's Wise Instruction
4 (A)Hear, O sons, a father's instruction,
and be attentive, that you may (B)gain[a] insight,
2 for I give you good (C)precepts;
do not forsake my teaching.
3 When I was a son with my father,
(D)tender, (E)the only one in the sight of my mother,
4 he (F)taught me and said to me,
(G)“Let your heart hold fast my words;
(H)keep my commandments, and live.
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- Proverbs 4:1 Hebrew know
Ephesians 6:4
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4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, (A)but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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Psalm 103:13
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13 As (A)a father shows compassion to his children,
so the Lord shows compassion (B)to those who fear him.
Proverbs 3:12
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12 for the Lord reproves him whom he loves,
as (A)a father the son in whom he delights.
Hebrews 12:5-11
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5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?
(A)“My son, (B)do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
nor be weary when reproved by him.
6 For (C)the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and chastises every son whom he receives.”
7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. (D)God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 If you are left without discipline, (E)in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to (F)the Father of spirits (G)and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, (H)that we may share his holiness. 11 (I)For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields (J)the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
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1 Thessalonians 2:11
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11 For you know how, (A)like a father with his children,
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