Raising children in a godly manner is a significant responsibility, as parents are entrusted with shaping their young ones' spiritual, emotional, and physical development. According to Proverbs 22:6, training children in the way they should go will have a lasting impact on their lives. The book of Ephesians, particularly chapter 6, emphasizes the importance of parental guidance, with fathers being exhorted to bring up their children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Psalms 127:3 and Proverbs 29:15 also highlight the value of children as a blessing from God and the need for parents to provide wise discipline, respectively, underscoring the significance of this role.
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Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die. Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.
See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.