Scripture emphasizes the importance of parental guidance in shaping the spiritual and moral character of children. In Ephesians 6:4, fathers are exhorted not to exasperate their children, but to bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Proverbs 22:6 encourages parents to train their children in the way they should go, and Deuteronomy 6:6-7 instructs them to impress God's commandments on their children's hearts. As Colossians 3:21 also reminds parents, their approach to childcare can have a lasting impact on their children's well-being and faith.
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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.
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.
If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son, when that man assigns his inheritance to his sons he must not appoint the son of the beloved wife as the firstborn over the son of the unloved wife. Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of his unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For that son is the firstfruits of his father’s strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
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.
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.”
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.