Bible Cross References
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Psalm 103:13
As a father pities [his] children, the Lord pities them that fear Him.
Proverbs 3:12
for whom the Lord loves, He rebukes, and scourges every son whom He receives.
Proverbs 4:1-4
1
Hear, my children, the instruction of a father, and give attention to know understanding.
2
For I give you a good gift; forsake not my law.
3
For I also was a son obedient to my father, and loved in the sight of my mother:
4
who spoke and instructed me, [saying], Let our speech be fixed in your heart, keep our commandments, forget them not:
Ephesians 6:4
And fathers, do not provoke your children, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 2:11
as indeed you know how each one of you, as a father [to] his own children, we exhorted, and comforted [you], and imploring you,
Hebrews 12:5-11
5
And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: "My son, do not despise the discipline of the LORD, nor be discouraged when you are reproved;
6
For whom the LORD loves He disciplines, and scourges every son whom He receives."
7
It is for discipline [that] you endure; God deals with you as with sons. For what son is there whom a father does not discipline?
8
But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.
9
Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we respected [them]. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
10
For they indeed for a few days were disciplining us, as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, in order to partake of His holiness.
11
Now no discipline seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, later it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those having been trained by it.