4And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
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Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Here we have further directions concerning relative duties, in which the apostle is very particular. I. The duty of children to their parents. Come, you children, hearken to me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord . The great duty of children is to obey their parents (Eph. 6:1), parents being the instruments of their being, God and nature having given them an authority to command, in subservienc…
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