16 Bible Verses about parenting

CHILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Children, be obedient to your parents in all things; for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

Parents, irritate not your children, lest their spirit be broken.

And, ye fathers, exasperate not your children: but educate them in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

Lo! I hold myself ready the third time to come unto you, and I will not burden you; for I seek not yours but you: for the children ought not to lay up treasure for their parents, but the parents for the children.

but is under tutors and trustees until the time fixed by his father.

And he shall go forth before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to convert the hearts of fathers with their children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people ready for the Lord.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn as their first duty to shew their piety towards their own family, and make a grateful return to their progenitors: for this is becoming and acceptable before God.

For they indeed for a few days as seemed proper to themselves corrected us; but he for our own advantage, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

If ye then, evil as ye are, know how to bestow good gifts on your children; how much more will your Father who is in heaven, bestow good things on those who ask him?

I have no greater joy than these tidings, that I hear my own children are walking in the truth.

unnatural, implacable, slanderers, intemperate, inhuman, averse to goodness,

For though ye may have ten thousand teachers in Christ, yet not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus through the Gospel I have begotten you.

But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherisheth her own infants.

feed the flock of God which is among you, exercising your pastoral office not of necessity, but of choice, not for base gain, but with alacrity of mind;