Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.
Like as a father pitieth his children, So the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
For whom the LORD loveth he reproveth; Even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.
Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:
as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying,