关于父亲身份、上帝作为父亲以及养育子女的19节圣经经文

The Bible says more about God as a father than about how to be one. Only two passages give instructions addressed to fathers, and both open with a warning: do not exasperate your children (Ephesians 6:4), do not embitter them (Colossians 3:21). Both then tell fathers to bring their children up in the Lord. Around those two sentences Scripture sets provision (1 Timothy 5:8), teaching at home (Deuteronomy 6:6-7), discipline (Proverbs 29:17) and what a father leaves behind. The nineteen…