Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Bible References

General references

Psalm 103:13
Like as a father pities his children, so the LORD pities them that fear him.
Proverbs 3:12
For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.
Proverbs 4:1
Hear, you children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Ephesians 6:4
And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 2:11
As you know how we exhorted and encouraged and charged every one of you, as a father does his children,
Hebrews 12:5
And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him: