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Selected Verse: Ephesians 6:4 - King James

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Eph 6:4 King James And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
fathers--including mothers; the fathers are specified as being the fountains of domestic authority. Fathers are more prone to passion in relation to their children than mothers, whose fault is rather over-indulgence.

provoke not--irritate not, by vexatious commands, unreasonable blame, and uncertain temper [ALFORD]. Col 3:21, "lest they be discouraged."

nurture--Greek, "discipline," namely, training by chastening in act where needed (Job 5:17; Heb 12:7).

admonition--training by words (Deu 6:7; "catechise," Pro 22:6, Margin), whether of encouragement, or remonstrance, or reproof, according as is required [TRENCH]. Contrast Sa1 3:13, Margin.

of the Lord--such as the Lord approves, and by His Spirit dictates.
 
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13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
7 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.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
1 To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.