^4 (A)Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but ^(B)bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

⁴ “^(A)Hear, Israel! The Lord is our God, the ^(B)Lord is one! ⁵ And ^(C)you shall love the Lord your God ^(D)with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. ^6 (E)These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. ⁷ And ^(F)you shall repeat them diligently to your sons and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down, and when you get up. ^8 (G)You shall also tie them as a ^[a]sign to your ^[b]hand, and they shall be as ^[c]frontlets ^[d]on your forehead. ^9 (H)You shall also write them on the ^[e]doorposts of your house and on your gates.

⁷ It is for discipline that you endure; ^(A)God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? ⁸ But if you are without discipline, ^(B)of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.