parental love

⁴And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.

⁶The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.

¹⁴And above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection.

¹²Honor your father and your mother, so that you may have a long life upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.

¹³As a father is compassionate to his sons, so has the Lord been compassionate to those who fear him.

⁸Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love.

⁸But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,

²⁰Children, obey your parents in all things. For this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

¹If I were to speak in the language of men, or of Angels, yet not have charity, I would be like a clanging bell or a crashing cymbal. ²And if I have prophecy, and learn every mystery, and obtain all knowledge, and possess all faith, so that I could move mountains, yet not have charity, then I am nothing. ³And if I distribute all my goods in order to feed the poor, and if I hand over my body to be burned, yet not have charity, it offers me nothing. ⁴Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated. ⁵Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil. ⁶Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth.

²⁴He who spares the rod hates his son. But he who loves him urgently instructs him.

⁸Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother,

¹⁶For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.

¹⁰In this is love: not as if we had loved God, but that he first loved us, and so he sent his Son as a propitiation for our sins.

²²So chastise your souls with the obedience of charity, in fraternal love, and love one another from a simple heart, attentively.

⁴Listen, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord. ⁵You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. ⁶And these words, which I instruct to you this day, shall be in your heart. ⁷And you shall explain them to your sons. And you shall meditate upon them sitting in your house, and walking on a journey, when lying down and when rising up. ⁸And you shall bind them like a sign on your hand, and they shall be placed and shall move between your eyes. ⁹And you shall write them at the threshold and on the doors of your house.

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance,

³The Lord appeared to me from a distance: “And I have loved you in perpetual charity. Therefore, showing pity, I have drawn you.

¹See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we would be called, and would become, the sons of God. Because of this, the world does not know us, for it did not know him.

¹⁵The rod and its correction distribute wisdom. But the child who is left to his own will, brings shame to his mother.