*1.* “As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him. Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” *2.* “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.” *3.* “My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.” *4.* “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.”