The Bible teaches that parents are to nurture and guide their children with selfless love, as commanded in Ephesians 6:4, where fathers are instructed not to exasperate their children. Proverbs 22:6 encourages parents to train their children in the way they should go, so they will not depart from it when they are old. As seen in Colossians 3:14, love is the binding force that holds families together, and in Exodus 20:12, children are commanded to honor their parents. The Psalms, such as Psalms 103:13, remind us that God's love for us is a model for parental love, as He has compassion on those who fear Him.
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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.
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing. 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. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways. Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
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 love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One. And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.