![]() ![]() Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Proverbs 3:11-12 My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.Įphesians 6:11-18 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. And now I have seen with joy how willingly your people who are here have given to you. All these things I have given willingly and with honest intent. Proverbs 22:6 Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.ġ Chronicles 29:17 I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. For what son is not disciplined by his father? Hebrews 12:7 Endure hardship as discipline God is treating you as sons. Fathers Give Direction And Discipline To Their ChildrenĪ father is implored to bring their children up in the ways of the Lord, to discipline them and to encourage, comfort and instruct them.Įphesians 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. ![]() Do not be afraid do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.ĭeuteronomy 6:6-9 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Joshua 1:9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?) ![]() He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect. Yes, this will be the blessing for the man who fears the Lord.ġ Timothy 3:2-5 Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. Psalm 128:3-4 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house your children will be like olive shoots around your table. Genesis 18:19 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. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. ![]() “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery-but I am talking about Christ and the church. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church- for we are members of his body. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He is also to be strong in the faith, and to bring the children up knowing right from wrong.Įphesians 5:25-37 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. He is called upon to be a leader and protector for the family, and to give an example of Christ’s love by being loving towards the children’s mother. Fathers Give Direction And Discipline To Their ChildrenĪ father’s role in the family is a pivotal one. ![]()
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