A fool despises his father's correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.
The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!
Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.
Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, "It's not wrong." He is a partner with a destroyer.
Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.
Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother.
"The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
for whom the LORD loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.
Like a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.
I will tell of the decree. the LORD said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father.
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
He will call to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!'
I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:
He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.
He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."
We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"
Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.
Boaz answered her, "It has fully been shown me, all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband; and how you have left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn't know before.
The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, "There is a son born to Naomi;" and they named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron,
and Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab,
and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon,
and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed,
and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.
So she came with her father and mother, her children, and all her kindred.
to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
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