l. Ps 103:13. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. Prov 14:26. In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge. Matt 6:32. ... (for after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. Heb 12:5-7,11. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?... Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.