32 Bible Verses about parenting

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

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

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

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

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome 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.

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

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

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

But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

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

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

For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

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

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

For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

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

Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

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

For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her 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 on thy gates.

And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac:

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

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