32 Bible Verses about parenting

Children, listen to your parents in the Lord: for this is just.

Children, listen to parents in all things: for this is pleasing to the Lord.

Fathers, irritate not your children, lest they be discouraged.

And, fathers, be not angry with your children: but bring them up in the instruction and reminding of the Lord.

Behold, I have prepared to come to you the third time; and I will not act with negligence to you: for I seek not your things, but you: for children ought not to treasure up for parents, but parents for children.

And teach them to your sons to speak in them in thy resting in thy house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up

But is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father.

And he shall come before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn back the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the intelligence of the just; to prepare a people having been put in order for the Lord.

In those days they shall no more say, The fathers ate sour grapes and the sons' teeth will be blunted.

And if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious to their own house, and to return recompenses to their progenitors: for this is good and acceptable before God.

Ye shall fear each his mother and his father, and my Sabbaths ye shall watch: I am Jehovah your God.

Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

As arrows in the hand of the strong one, so are sons of youth.

For they truly for a few days, according as it seemed to them, corrected; but he for profit, in order to partake in his holiness.

A foolish son a grief to his father, and bitterness to her bringing him forth.

If ye, therefore, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children how much more will your Father which is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?

For this boy I prayed, and Jehovah will give to me my asking which I asked of him.

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

Thou shalt not withhold instruction from youth: if thou shalt strike him with a rod he shall not die.

Devoid of natural affection, not observing treaties, accusers, ungoverned, wild, not loving the good,

Folly being bound in the heart of a youth; the rod of correction shall remove it far off from him.

For if ye have ten thousand preceptors in Christ, but not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus by the good news I begat you.

But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse should cherish her children:

He withholding his rod hates his son: and he loving him, sought correction for him.

And write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates.

And all thy sons taught of Jehovah; and much the peace of thy sons.

When a man, a man who shall lightly esteem his father and his mother, dying, he shall die: he lightly esteemed ha father and his mother: his blood is upon him.

And these the generations of Isaak, son of Abraham: Abraham begetting Isaak.

Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will;

And the boys will become great; and Esau will be a man knowing the chase, a man of the country; and Jacob an upright man, dwelling in tents.

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: the foolish despised wisdom and instruction.