Ephesians 6:4
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4 And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.(A)
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Colossians 3:21
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21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, or they may lose heart.
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Proverbs 29:15
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15 The rod and reproof give wisdom,
but a mother is disgraced by a neglected child.(A)
Proverbs 22:6
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6 Train children in the right way,
and when old, they will not stray.(A)
Proverbs 19:18
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18 Discipline your children while there is hope;
do not set your heart on their destruction.(A)
Deuteronomy 6:7
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7 Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise.(A)
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2 Timothy 3:15
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15 and how from childhood you have known sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
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Proverbs 29:17
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17 Discipline your children, and they will give you rest;
they will give delight to your heart.(A)
Proverbs 23:13-14
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13 Do not withhold discipline from your children;
if you beat them with a rod, they will not die.(A)
14 If you beat them with the rod,
you will save their lives from Sheol.
Genesis 18:19
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19 No, for I have chosen[a] him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”(A)
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- 18.19 Heb known
Proverbs 22:15
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15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
but the rod of discipline drives it far away.(A)
Proverbs 4:1-4
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Parental Advice
4 Listen, children, to a father’s instruction,
and be attentive, that you may gain[a] insight,(A)
2 for I give you good precepts:
do not forsake my teaching.
3 When I was a son with my father,
tender and my mother’s favorite,(B)
4 he taught me and said to me,
“Let your heart hold fast my words;
keep my commandments and live.(C)
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- 4.1 Heb know
Deuteronomy 4:9
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9 “But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children’s children(A)—
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2 Timothy 1:5
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5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, lives in you.(A)
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Hebrews 12:7-10
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7 Endure trials for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as children, for what child is there whom a parent does not discipline?(A) 8 If you do not have that discipline in which all children share, then you are illegitimate and not his children.(B) 9 Moreover, we had human parents to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not be even more willing to be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share his holiness.(C)
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Psalm 78:4-7
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4 We will not hide them from their children;
we will tell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the Lord and his might
and the wonders that he has done.(A)
5 He established a decree in Jacob
and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our ancestors
to teach to their children,(B)
6 that the next generation might know them,
the children yet unborn,
and rise up and tell them to their children,(C)
7 so that they should set their hope in God,
and not forget the works of God,
but keep his commandments;(D)
Deuteronomy 11:19-21
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19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise up.(A) 20 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,(B) 21 so that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
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Psalm 71:17-18
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17 O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.(A)
18 So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might
to all the generations to come.[a]
Your power(B)
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- 71.18 Gk Compare Syr: Heb to a generation, to all who come
Deuteronomy 6:20-24
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20 “When your children ask you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees and the statutes and the ordinances that the Lord our God has commanded you?’(A) 21 then you shall say to your children, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 22 The Lord displayed before our eyes great and awesome signs and wonders against Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his household. 23 He brought us out from there in order to bring us in, to give us the land that he promised on oath to our ancestors. 24 Then the Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our lasting good, so as to keep us alive, as is now the case.(B)
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Isaiah 38:19
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19 The living, the living, they thank you,
as I do this day;
fathers make known to children
your faithfulness.(A)
1 Chronicles 28:20
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20 David said further to his son Solomon, “Be strong and of good courage, and act. Do not be afraid or dismayed, for the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of the Lord is finished.(A)
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1 Chronicles 28:9-10
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9 “And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with single mind and willing heart, for the Lord searches every mind and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will abandon you forever.(A) 10 Take heed, now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house as the sanctuary; be strong, and act.”(B)
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Joshua 24:15
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15 Now if you are unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living, but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”(A)
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1 Chronicles 29:19
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19 Grant to my son Solomon that with single mind he may keep your commandments, your decrees, and your statutes, performing all of them, and that he may build the temple[a] for which I have made provision.”(A)
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- 29.19 Heb fortress
1 Chronicles 22:10-13
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10 He shall build a house for my name. He shall be a son to me, and I will be a father to him, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.’(A) 11 Now, my son, the Lord be with you, so that you may succeed in building the house of the Lord your God, as he has spoken concerning you.(B) 12 Only, may the Lord grant you discretion and understanding, so that when he gives you charge over Israel you may keep the law of the Lord your God.(C) 13 Then you will prosper, if you are careful to observe the statutes and the ordinances that the Lord commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and of good courage. Do not be afraid or dismayed.(D)
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