37 Bible Verses about parenthood

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.

For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.

But ye shall be delivered up even by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, and friends; and'some of you shall they cause to be put to death.

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?

Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),

And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given to God ;

For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them;

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow; And the father of a fool hath no joy.

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

Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

Withhold not correction from the child; For if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.

A wise son heareth his father's instruction; But a scoffer heareth not rebuke.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

Or what man is there of you, who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone;

Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea , wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God ;

Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.

And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serpent?

and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and his parents knew it not;

Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.

And his parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the passover.

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

Woe unto him that saith unto a father, What begettest thou? or to a woman, With what travailest thou?

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.