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 to the Lord.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they be discouraged.

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

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.

And you shall teach them to your sons, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

but he is under guardians and housemasters until the term appointed before by the father.

And he shall go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 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 not say any more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the sons are dull.

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.

You shall each man revere his mother and his father, and keep My sabbaths. I am Jehovah your God.

Sons, hear the instruction of a father, and listen in order to know understanding.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the sons of the young.

For truly they chastened us for a few days according to 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 who bore him.

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?

For this boy I was praying, and Jehovah has given me my petition which I asked of Him.

I have no greater joy than these things, to hear that my children walk in the truth.

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

without natural affection, unyielding, false accusers, without self-control, savage, despisers of good,

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

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

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse warmly cherishes her children.

He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him chastens him early.

And you shall write them upon the posts of your house, and on your gates.

And all your sons shall be taught of Jehovah; and great shall be the peace of your sons.

And any man who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be on him.

And these were the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham fathered Isaac.

Feed the flock of God among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; nor for base gain, but readily;

And the boys grew. And Esau was a man knowing hunting, and Jacob was a simple man, living in tents.

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