8 Bible Verses about Being A Parent

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage -- I have overcome the world.'

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah are sons, A reward is the fruit of the womb. As arrows in the hand of a mighty one, So are the sons of the young men. O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not. Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.

Chastisement of Jehovah, my son, despise not, And be not vexed with His reproof, For whom Jehovah loveth He reproveth, Even as a father the son He is pleased with.

Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.