32 Bible Verses about parenting

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

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

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

Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father,

and he shall go before Him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn hearts of fathers unto children, and disobedient ones to the wisdom of righteous ones, to make ready for the Lord, a people prepared.'

In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted.

and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I am Jehovah your God.

Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty one, So are the sons of the young men.

for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;

A provocation to his father is a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.

if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?

for this youth I prayed, and Jehovah doth give to me my petition which I asked of Him;

greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.

without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

for if a myriad of child-conductors ye may have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus, through the good news, I -- I did beget you;

But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,

Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

and thou hast written them on door-posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

And all thy sons are taught of Jehovah, And abundant is the peace of thy sons.

For any man who revileth his father and his mother is certainly put to death; his father and his mother he hath reviled: his blood is on him.

And these are births of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham hath begotten Isaac;

feed the flock of God that is among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,

And the youths grew, and Esau is a man acquainted with hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob is a plain man, inhabiting tents;

Fear of Jehovah is a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!