Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

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

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.

My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one.”

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’

Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.