37 Bible Verses about parenthood

of whom the whole family in Heaven and earth is named,

And fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be godly to their own house, and give back to their forebears what is due them; for that is good and pleasing before God.

Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she who bore you shall rejoice.

For God commanded, saying, "Honor your father and mother"; and, "He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him die by death."

And you shall be betrayed also by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends. And they will cause some of you to be put to death.

You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice; and he who fathers a wise child shall have joy from him.

Behold, a third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not burden you, for I do not seek your things, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

What is it to you that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the teeth of the sons are dull?

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

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

But you say, Whoever says to his father or mother, Whatever you would gain from me, It is a gift to God;

For surely there is a hereafter, and your hope shall not be cut off.

If a man has a son who is stubborn and rebels, who will not obey his father's voice or his mother's voice, even when they have chastened him he will not listen to them,

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

And a brother will betray a brother to death, and a father his son. And children will rise up against their parents and will cause them to be put to death.

He who fathers a fool does it to his sorrow; the father of a fool has no joy.

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

Jesus answered, Neither has this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God might be revealed in him.

Do not withhold correction from a boy, for if you beat him with the rod, he will not die.

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

Listen to your father who sired you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

A wise son heeds his father's instruction, but a scorner does not hear rebuke.

He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father in Heaven give good things to those who ask Him?

Or what man is there of you, if his son asks a loaf, will he give him a stone?

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

But you say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, Corban! (that is, A gift to God, whatever you may profit by me)

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

For what father of you, if the son asks for bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a snake for a fish?

And fulfilling the days, as they returned, the boy Jesus stayed in Jerusalem. And Joseph and His mother did not know.

Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin. And sin, when it is fully formed, brings forth death.

And His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.

Behold, all souls are Mine. As the soul of the father, also the soul of the son, they are Mine. The soul that sins, it shall die.

Woe to him who says to his father, What are you fathering? Or to the woman, What are you laboring over?

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. And everyone who loves Him who begets also loves him who has been born of Him.