Ephesians 6:1-4
Children, obey your parents; fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
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From The City of God by Saint Augustine
Children are a heritage from the Lord, commanded to honor and obey parents; parents are charged to discipline, instruct, and not provoke their children.
Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother—the fifth commandment.
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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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Thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children—the Shema's parental charge.
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Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord.
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He that spareth his rod hateth his son.
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Children, obey your parents in all things; fathers, provoke not your children.
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The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
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Withhold not correction from the child.
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If any provide not for his own... he hath denied the faith.
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Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.
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Children's children are the crown of old men.
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