Proverbs 22:6
22:6 Train a child in the way that he should go,
and when he is old he will not turn from it.
Genesis 18:19
18:19 I have chosen him
so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep
the way of the
Lord by doing
what is right and just. Then the
Lord will give
to Abraham what he promised
him.”
Genesis 18:1
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18:1 The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day.
Genesis 22:11-16
22:11 But the
Lord’s angel
called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered.
22:12 “Do not harm the boy!”
the angel said.
“Do not do anything to him, for now I know
that you fear
God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me.”
22:13 Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place “The Lord provides.” It is said to this day, “In the mountain of the Lord provision will be made.”
22:15 The Lord’s angel called to Abraham a second time from heaven
22:16 and said, “‘I solemnly swear by my own name,’ decrees the Lord, ‘that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
Genesis 28:9
28:9 So Esau went to Ishmael and married
Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, along with the wives he already had.
Ephesians 6:4
6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:2
6:2 “
Honor your father and mother,”
which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,
Ephesians 1:5
1:5 He did this by predestining
us to adoption as his
sons
through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure
of his will –
Ephesians 3:15
3:15 from
whom every family
in heaven and on the earth is named.