Being a Good Father

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.

As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.

The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.

Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward. …

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.

What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?

Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”

My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;

…for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.