And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.Ephesians 6:4 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleFathers, provoke not your children to wrath - Avoid all severity; this will hurt your own souls, and do them no good; on the contrary, if punished with severity or cruelty, they will be only hardened and made desperate in their sins. Cruel parents generally have bad children. He who corrects his children according to God and reason will feel every blow on his own heart more sensibly than his child feels it on his body. Parents are called to correct; not to punish, their children. Those who punish them do it from a principle of revenge; those who correct them do it from a principle of affectionate concern.
Bring them up, etc - Εκτρεφετε αυτα εν παιδειᾳ και νουθεσια Κυριου· literally, Nourish them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. The mind is to be nourished with wholesome discipline and instruction, as the body is with proper food. Παιδεια, discipline, may refer to all that knowledge which is proper for children, including elementary principles and rules for behavior, etc. Νουθεσια, instruction, may imply whatever is necessary to form the mind; to touch, regulate, and purify the passions; and necessarily includes the whole of religion. Both these should be administered in the Lord - according to his will and word, and in reference to his eternal glory. All the important lessons and doctrines being derived from his revelation, therefore they are called the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Genesis 31:14,15 And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house...
1 Samuel 20:30-34 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, You son of the perverse rebellious woman...
Colossians 3:21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
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Genesis 18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD...
Exodus 12:26,27 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say to you, What mean you by this service...
Exodus 13:14,15 And it shall be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is this? that you shall say to him...
Deuteronomy 4:9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen...
Deuteronomy 6:7,20-24 And 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...
Deuteronomy 11:19-21 And you shall teach them your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down...
Joshua 4:6,7 That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean you by these stones...
Joshua 4:21-24 And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying...
Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil to you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom you will serve...
1 Chronicles 22:10-13 He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father...
1 Chronicles 28:9,10,20 And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind...
1 Chronicles 29:19 And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things...
Psalm 71:17 O God, you have taught me from my youth: and till now have I declared your wondrous works.
Psalm 71:18 Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed your strength to this generation...
Psalm 78:4-7 We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength...
Proverbs 4:1-4 Hear, you children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding...
Proverbs 19:18 Chasten your son while there is hope, and let not your soul spare for his crying.
Proverbs 22:6,15 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it...
Proverbs 23:13,14 Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die...
Proverbs 29:15,17 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings his mother to shame...
Isaiah 38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known your truth.
2 Timothy 1:5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in you, which dwelled first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice...
2 Timothy 3:15 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures...
Hebrews 12:7-10 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not...
Ephesians 6:4 Parallel Commentaries
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