37 Bible Verses about parenthood

of whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is named,

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

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.

Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.

for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;

'And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death;

Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.

The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.

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,

What -- to you, ye -- using this simile Concerning the ground of Israel, saying: Fathers do eat unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted?

honour thy father and mother,

'And he who smiteth his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

but ye say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering is whatever thou mayest be profited by me; --

For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.

When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious -- he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them --

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

'And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

Whoso is begetting a fool hath affliction for it, Yea, the father of a fool rejoiceth not.

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

Jesus answered, 'Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be manifested in him;

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

'And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

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

A wise son -- the instruction of a father, And a scorner -- he hath not heard rebuke.

'He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

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?

Or what man is of you, of whom, if his son may ask a loaf -- a stone will he present to him?

Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,

and ye say, If a man may say to father or to mother, Korban (that is, a gift), is whatever thou mayest be profited out of mine,

because of this his parents said -- 'He is of age, ask him.'

And of which of you -- the father -- if the son shall ask a loaf, a stone will he present to him? and if a fish, will he instead of a fish, a serpent present to him?

and having finished the days, in their returning the child Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, and Joseph and his mother did not know,

afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

And his parents were going yearly to Jerusalem, at the feast of the passover,

Lo, all the souls are Mine, As the soul of the father, So also the soul of the son -- they are Mine, The soul that is sinning -- it doth die.

Woe to him who is saying to a father, 'What dost thou beget?' Or to a wife, 'What dost thou bring forth?

Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him: