Question 125

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Ephesians 6:4

4Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 12:14

14See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

1 Thessalonians 2:7-8

7On the contrary, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother caring for her children.

8We cared so deeply that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God, but our own lives as well. That is how beloved you have become to us.

1 Thessalonians 2:11

11For you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children—

Numbers 11:11-12

11So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people?

12Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?

1 Corinthians 4:14-16

14I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.

15Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

16Therefore I urge you to imitate me.

2 Kings 5:13

13Naaman’s servants, however, approached him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’?”