Loving your son

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• Proverbs 22:6

  Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

• Proverbs 13:24

  He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

• Ephesians 6:4

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

• Ephesians 6:10–13

  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. …

• Ephesians 6:1–24

  Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. …

• Deuteronomy 21:18

  If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

• Proverbs 23:13

  Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

• Hebrews 12:5–6

  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: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

• Colossians 3:20

  Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

• Proverbs 1:1–33

  The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; …

• Proverbs 23:13–14

  Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

• Proverbs 29:15

  The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.