Raising children in a loving and godly manner is a vital responsibility for Christian parents. According to Ephesians 6:4, fathers are to bring up their children in the training and instruction of the Lord, while Proverbs 22:6 encourages parents to train their children in the way they should go. The Psalms also celebrate the blessing of children, as seen in Psalms 127:3-5, which describes them as a heritage from the Lord. By demonstrating patience, kindness, and selflessness, as described in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, parents can model Christ's love for their children, and as 1 Timothy 5:8 reminds us, provide for their physical and spiritual needs.
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Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.