18 Bible Verses About Fatherhood, and the Two Instructions Paul Actually Gave

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摘要

  • The only two instructions the New Testament addresses to fathers are both negative: do not exasperate, do not embitter.
  • Paul leaves Abba untranslated in a letter to Rome, which means the Aramaic family word had become fixed in the churches.
  • Jesus grants in passing that human fathers are evil and argues from their generosity anyway.
  • 2 Corinthians 12:14 settles which way money travels between generations: parents save for children, not the reverse.
  • Paul claims fatherhood over a church he had no blood relation to, having no children of his own.

The only two instructions the New Testament gives specifically to fathers are both negative. Do not exasperate your children. Do not embitter them, or they will become discouraged. That is the whole of it — no list of duties, no description of headship in the house, nothing about provision beyond a general instruction to every relative. Whatever Paul thought fathers most needed telling, it was what to stop doing, and we should sit with that before we go looking for…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

The household codes containing both instructions to fathers are at Ephesians 6:4 and Colossians 3:21.

Abba is left untranslated at Romans 8:15, Galatians 4:6 and Mark 14:36.

Human fathers disciplining as they thought best is at Hebrews 12:10.

The widows Paul has in view at 1 Timothy 5:8 are the subject of 1 Timothy 5:3-16.

Paul compares himself to a nursing mother at 1 Thessalonians 2:7.

The arrangement made from the cross is at John 19:26-27.

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