Ephesians 6:4

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Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

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  • Prov 19:18 : 18 Discipline your son while there is hope, and do not desire his death.
  • Col 3:21 : 21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they won’t become discouraged.
  • Prov 22:6 : 6 Train a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.
  • Deut 6:7 : 7 Teach them diligently to your children, and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you get up.
  • Gen 18:19 : 19 For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, so that the LORD will bring about for Abraham what He has promised him.
  • Prov 29:15 : 15 The rod of correction and discipline impart wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
  • Prov 29:17 : 17 Discipline your son, and he will bring you peace; he will give delight to your soul.
  • Prov 23:13-14 : 13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; though you strike him with the rod, he will not die. 14 You shall strike him with the rod and deliver his soul from Sheol.
  • 2 Tim 1:5 : 5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that it now lives in you also.
  • 2 Tim 3:15 : 15 And from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
  • Prov 22:15 : 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.
  • Deut 4:9 : 9 Only be careful and guard your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.
  • Deut 11:19-21 : 19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, 21 so that your days and the days of your children may be prolonged in the land that the LORD swore to give to your ancestors, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
  • Heb 12:7-9 : 7 If you endure discipline, God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. 9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live! 10 Our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few days as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.
  • Prov 4:1-4 : 1 Listen, my sons, to the instruction of a father; pay attention so you may gain understanding. 2 For I give you good teaching; do not abandon my instruction. 3 When I was a son to my father, tender and the only one in the eyes of my mother, 4 he taught me and said to me, 'Let your heart hold onto my words; keep my commands, and you will live.'
  • Ps 78:4-7 : 4 We will not hide them from their children, but will tell the next generation the praises of the Lord, His strength, and the wonders He has done. 5 He established a testimony in Jacob and set a law in Israel, which He commanded our ancestors to teach their children, 6 so that the next generation would know them—children yet to be born—and in turn they would rise and tell their children, 7 so they would put their trust in God and not forget His deeds but keep His commandments.
  • Deut 6:20-24 : 20 In the future, when your son asks you, 'What is the meaning of the testimonies, statutes, and judgments that the LORD our God has commanded you?' 21 You shall say to your son: 'We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.' 22 The LORD performed great and distressing signs and wonders before our eyes against Egypt, Pharaoh, and his whole household. 23 But He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land that He swore to our fathers. 24 The LORD commanded us to obey all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God for our own good always, so that He might preserve our lives, as it is today.
  • Exod 12:26-27 : 26 When your children ask you, 'What does this ceremony mean to you?' 27 You are to reply, 'It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and spared our homes.' Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
  • Exod 13:14-15 : 14 In the future, when your son asks you, 'What does this mean?' say to him, 'With a mighty hand, the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 15 When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed every firstborn in Egypt, both human and animal. This is why I sacrifice to the LORD every male that first opens the womb and redeem every firstborn of my sons.'
  • Josh 4:6-7 : 6 This will serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’ 7 you shall tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD when it crossed the Jordan. The waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the Israelites forever.’”
  • Josh 4:21-24 : 21 He said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What do these stones mean?’ 22 You are to let your children know: 'Israel crossed the Jordan here on dry ground.' 23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed, just as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea when He dried it up before us until we had crossed over. 24 He did this so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, and so that you may always fear the LORD your God.
  • Josh 24:15 : 15 But if it seems undesirable to you to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve—whether the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But as for me and my family, we will serve the LORD.
  • 1 Chr 22:10-13 : 10 He will build a house for my name, and he will be my son, and I will be his father. I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever. 11 Now, my son, may the Lord be with you, so that you may succeed in building the house of the Lord your God, as He has spoken concerning you. 12 Only may the Lord give you wisdom and understanding and put you in charge of Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God. 13 Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and ordinances that the Lord commanded Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous; do not fear or be dismayed.
  • 1 Chr 28:9-9 : 9 And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him with wholehearted devotion and a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever. 10 Consider now, for the LORD has chosen you to build a house as the sanctuary. Be strong and do it.
  • 1 Chr 28:20 : 20 Then David said to his son Solomon, “Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you until all the work for the service of the house of the LORD is finished.
  • 1 Chr 29:19 : 19 And give my son Solomon an undivided heart to keep your commandments, your statutes, and your decrees, and to carry out all these plans, building the temple for which I have made preparations.
  • Ps 71:17-18 : 17 God, you have taught me from my youth, and to this day I declare your wondrous works. 18 Even when I am old and my hair turns gray, O God, do not forsake me, until I declare your power to the next generation, your mighty acts to all who are to come.
  • Isa 38:19 : 19 The living, the living—they thank You, as I do today. Fathers make Your faithfulness known to their children.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Col 3:20-21
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    20Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

    21Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they won’t become discouraged.

  • Eph 6:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is the right thing to do.

    2"Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise),

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    6Train a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.

  • Heb 12:5-9
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    5And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: "My son, do not take lightly the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when you are reproved by Him."

    6For the Lord disciplines those He loves, and He chastises every son He accepts.

    7If you endure discipline, God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

    8If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

    9Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!

  • Prov 4:1
    76%

    1Listen, my sons, to the instruction of a father; pay attention so you may gain understanding.

  • Eph 6:5
    75%

    5Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with sincerity of heart, as you would Christ.

  • Prov 19:18
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    18Discipline your son while there is hope, and do not desire his death.

  • Prov 1:8
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    8Listen, my son, to your father's instruction, and do not forsake your mother's teaching,

  • Prov 3:11-12
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    75%

    11My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline, and do not be weary of His reproof.

    12For the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

  • Prov 6:20
    74%

    20My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

  • Prov 17:6
    74%

    6Children’s children are the crown of the elderly, and the glory of children is their parents.

  • Prov 29:17
    74%

    17Discipline your son, and he will bring you peace; he will give delight to your soul.

  • Prov 23:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13Do not withhold discipline from a child; though you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

    14You shall strike him with the rod and deliver his soul from Sheol.

  • Deut 5:16
    74%

    16Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well for you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Eph 5:6
    73%

    6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.

  • 1 Tim 5:1
    73%

    1Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but appeal to him as you would to a father. Treat younger men as brothers,

  • Deut 21:18
    73%

    18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother, and they discipline him but he will not listen to them,

  • Deut 8:5
    73%

    5Know then in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.

  • 1 Tim 3:4
    73%

    4He must manage his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity.

  • 1 Thess 2:11
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    11Just as you know how we dealt with each one of you like a father with his own children,

  • Deut 6:7
    73%

    7Teach them diligently to your children, and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you get up.

  • Exod 20:12
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    12Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Eph 4:26
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    26Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

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    24Whoever spares the rod hates their child, but the one who loves their child is diligent to discipline them.

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    6Because of these things, the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.

  • Prov 19:26
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    26Whoever robs their father and drives out their mother is a child who brings shame and disgrace.

  • 1 Cor 4:14-15
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    71%

    14I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.

    15For even if you have countless teachers in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the gospel.

  • Prov 30:11
    71%

    11There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother.

  • 1 Pet 1:14
    71%

    14As obedient children, do not conform to the desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

  • 1 Tim 5:4
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    4But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show respect within their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

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    71%

    15The rod of correction and discipline impart wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

  • Prov 23:22
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    22Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Titus 2:4
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    4They are to encourage the young women to love their husbands and children,

  • Ps 6:1
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    1For the director, with stringed instruments, on the eighth. A psalm of David.

  • Eph 5:1
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    1Therefore, be imitators of God, as beloved children.

  • Deut 4:25
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    25When you have children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and if you act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God to provoke Him to anger,

  • Prov 22:15
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    15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.

  • Eph 6:9
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    9And masters, treat your slaves in the same way, without threatening them, knowing that you too have a Master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with Him.