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• 2 T I MOT H Y 1 :5 | I remember your genuine faith, for you share the faith that first filled your
grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice.
• E X O DU S 1 0 :2 | “You can tell your children and grandchildren about how I made a mockery of the Egyptians and about the signs I displayed among them.” (See note on page 61.)
• J O E L 1 :3 | Tell your children about it in the years to come. . . . Pass the story down from
generation to generation. (See note on page 798.)
To share spiritual experiences with them and remind them of their spiritual heritage.
• T I T U S 2 :4 -5 | These older women must train the younger women to love their husbands
and their children . . . to work in their homes.
• E PH E SI A NS 6 :4 | Bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.
To love them and discipline them when necessary. To teach them proper conduct. To be
a good role model.
• PR O VE R B S 3 1 :2 7 | She carefully watches everything in her household and suffers nothing
from laziness.
• 1 SA MU E L 3 :1 3 | “I have warned him that judgment is coming upon his family forever,
because his sons are blaspheming God and he hasn’t disciplined them.” (See note on page 248.)
• 1 K I NG S 1 :6 | Now his father . . . had never disciplined him at any time, even by asking,
“Why are you doing that?”
• PR O VE R B S 2 9 :1 5 | To discipline a child produces wisdom, but a mother is disgraced by
an undisciplined child.
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To provide for them.
• DE U T E R O NO MY 1 2 :7 | “There you and your families will feast in the presence of the Lord
your God, and you will rejoice in all you have accomplished because [he] has blessed you.”
(See note on page 171.)
Family celebrations are an effective way to bond family members to each other and to God.
• PSA L M 1 0 2 :2 8 | “Their children’s children will thrive in your presence.” (See note on page 532.)
Faith in God is the most important inheritance we can pass along to future generations.
• DE U T E R O NO MY 1 :3 1 | “And you saw how the Lord your God cared for you all along the way
as you traveled through the wilderness, just as a father cares for his child.” (See note on page 160.)
• 1 T I MOT H Y 5 :8 | But those who won’t care for their relatives, especially those in their own
household, have denied the true faith. Such people are worse than unbelievers.
As God abundantly cares for us, so we should joyfully care for our family.
What does the Bible say about the role of parents?
• 2 T I MOT H Y 3 :1 5 | You have been taught the holy Scriptures from childhood. (See note on
page 1099.)
Parents are responsible for teaching their children a love for the Word of God.
• DE U T E R O NO MY 6 :4 -9 | Repeat them again and again to your children. (See note on page 165.)
Parents are responsible not only to teach their children biblical values but also to model for
them lives of obedience.
• PR O VE R B S 3 :1 2 | For the Lord corrects those he loves, just as a father corrects a child in
whom he delights.
• H E B R E W S 1 2 :1 1 | No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it’s painful! But
afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living.
Parents are responsible to discipline their children with consistency, wisdom, and love.
• G E NE SI S 2 5 :2 8 | Isaac loved Esau . . . but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Parents are not to show favoritism between children.
• 1 SA MU E L 2 :2 9 | “Why do you give your sons more honor than you give me!”
Parents who are too indulgent do not help their children develop character.
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Neglecting to teach your children spiritual truths and neglecting discipline have tragic
consequences.