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Colossians 3:21
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
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Ephesians 6:4
And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
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Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
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Psalm 127:3-5
See, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
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Of the Chief Good, and the Worship of the True God, and a ...
... to maintain and preserve justice by good works ... be contemplated by the soul: for God,
being Himself immortal ... reverence and worship of the common Parent of mankind ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap ix of the chief good.htm

Whether Sin Diminishes the Good of Nature?
... was entirely destroyed through the sin of our first parent. ... is speaking of the
first-mentioned good of nature, which consists in "being, living and ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether sin diminishes the good.htm

Whether Man Can Wish or do any Good Without Grace?
... as it is corrupted in us after the sin of our first parent. ... 2: To sin is nothing
else than to fail in the good which belongs to any being according to ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether man can wish or.htm

Argument. --Moreover, He is Good, Always the Same, Immutable, one ...
... to Himself the name of "the Perfect," both Parent and Judge ... cause than by his departure
from the good God. ... time, learn to be by coming into being, and therefore ...
/.../chapter iv argument moreover he is.htm

Gentleness.
... tree and yet bearing evil fruit, or of being a corrupt ... are intimately connected with
gentleness, and good manners are ... Are you, if a parent, as gentle to your ...
//christianbookshelf.org/orr/how to live a holy life/gentleness.htm

Whether Sin Diminishes Natural Good
... was totally lost through the sin of our first parent. ... see that Dionysius is speaking
of the primary good of nature, which consists of being, living, and ...
/.../aquinas/nature and grace/article one whether sin diminishes.htm

Abba, Father!
... parent.'. 'But in him you call a good parent, there yet lay evil, and that
accounts for the child being evil.'. 'I cannot explain. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/macdonald/unspoken sermons/abba father.htm

The Unity of the Divine Being
... could not shine, nor warm, nor do any good without him ... this plain and familiar way
a wise parent might, many ... Many indeed think of being happy with God in heaven ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 114 the unity of.htm

Upon the Love of Our Neighbour.
... This includes the good neighbour, parent, master, magistrate: and such a behaviour ...
or another's, and the love of God as a being perfectly good is the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/butler/human nature/sermon xii upon the love.htm

The Good Man's Life and Death
... The pulse that preserves our being beats our death march ... points, the good man's life,
and the good man's death. ... and he traces his life to the parent stock; but ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/the good mans life and.htm