Happy father’s day:
Into The Word we go:
Ephesians 6:4: “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
Proverbs 1:8: “Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.”
2 Corinthians 6:18: “And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
Psalm 103:13: “As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.”
Proverbs 22:6: “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.”
2 Samuel 7:14-15: “I will be a father to him, and he’ll be a son to me. When he does wrong, I’ll discipline him in the usual ways, the pitfalls and obstacles of this mortal life. But I’ll never remove my gracious love from him.”
Proverbs 23:22: “Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.”
Proverbs 23:24: “The father of a righteous child has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.”
Psalm 32:7-8: “You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance.”
Proverbs 4:11-12: “I will guide you in the way of wisdom and I will lead you in upright paths. When you walk, your steps will not be hampered, and when you run, you will not stumble.”
Luke 15:20: “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.”
Deuteronomy 1:31: “There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.”
Malachi 4:6: “He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.”
Hebrews 12:7: “Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?”