32 Bible Verses about parenting

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

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

Fathers, do not vex your children, to the end that they be not disheartened.

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

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

And ye shall teach them unto your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up;

but he is under guardians and stewards until the period fixed by the father.

And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn hearts of fathers to children, and disobedient ones to the thoughts of just men, to make ready for the Lord a prepared people.

In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge:

but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Ye shall reverence every man his mother, and his father, and my sabbaths shall ye keep: I am Jehovah your God.

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know intelligence;

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

For they indeed chastened for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he for profit, in order to the partaking of his holiness.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

If therefore ye, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to them that ask of him?

For this boy I prayed; and Jehovah has granted me my petition which I asked of him.

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

Withhold not correction from the child; for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die:

without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,

Folly is bound in the heart of a child; the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

For if ye should have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the glad tidings.

but have been gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse would cherish her own children.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.

And all thy children shall be taught of Jehovah, and great shall be the peace of thy children.

Whatever man revileth his father and his mother shall certainly be put to death: he hath reviled his father and his mother; his blood is upon him.

And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham begot Isaac.

shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising oversight, not by necessity, but willingly; not for base gain, but readily;

And the boys grew, and Esau became a man skilled in hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob was a homely man, dwelling in tents.

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction.