Bible Cross References
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Psalm 103:13
As a father has compassion on his children, so Jehovah has compassion on those who fear Him.
Proverbs 3:12
for whom Jehovah loves He corrects, even as a father corrects the son with whom he is pleased.
Proverbs 4:1-4
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Children, hear the instruction of a father, and pay attention to know understanding,
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for I give you good teaching; do not forsake my law.
3
For I was my father's son, tender and an only one in the sight of my mother.
4
And he taught me and said to me, Let your heart cling to my words; keep my commandments and live.
Ephesians 6:4
And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 2:11
as you know how we exhorted, and encouraged, and charged every one of you, as a father does his own children,
Hebrews 12:5-11
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And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him.
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For whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and whips every son whom He receives.
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If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not discipline?
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But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.
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Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
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For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.
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Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised by it.