8 Bible Verses about Being A Parent

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up by training and instructing them about the Lord.

I have told you this so that through me you may have peace. In the world you'll have trouble, but be courageous I've overcome the world!"

Children are a gift from the LORD; a productive womb, the LORD's reward. As arrows in the hand of a warrior, so also are children born during one's youth. How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them! He will not be ashamed as they confront their enemies at the city gate. A Song of Ascents

Train a child in the way appropriate for him, and when he becomes older, he will not turn from it.

Fathers, do not make your children resentful. Otherwise, they'll become discouraged.

Don't withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with a rod, he won't die. Punish him with a rod, and you will rescue his soul from Sheol.

My son, do not reject the LORD's discipline, and do not despise his correction, because the LORD corrects the person he loves, just as a father corrects the son he delights in.

Listen to the one who fathered you, and don't despise your mother in her old age.