32 Bible Verses about parenting

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

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

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become disheartened.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Look, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not want your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.

But he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.

And he will go as forerunner before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him."

"When that time comes, people will no longer say, 'The parents have eaten sour grapes, but the children's teeth have grown numb.'

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn to fulfill their duty toward their own household and so repay their parents what is owed them. For this is what pleases God.

Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

Listen, children, to a father's instruction, and pay attention so that you may gain discernment.

Sons born during one's youth are like arrows in a warrior's hand.

For they disciplined us for a little while as seemed good to them, but he does so for our benefit, that we may share his holiness.

A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

I prayed for this boy, and the Lord has given me the request that I asked of him.

I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living according to the truth.

Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good,

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

although we could have imposed our weight as apostles of Christ; instead we became little children among you. Like a nursing mother caring for her own children,

The one who spares his rod hates his child, but the one who loves his child is diligent in disciplining him.

Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and gates.

All your children will be followers of the Lord, and your children will enjoy great prosperity.

"'If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.

This is the account of Isaac, the son of Abraham. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

Give a shepherd's care to God's flock among you, exercising oversight not merely as a duty but willingly under God's direction, not for shameful profit but eagerly.

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.

Fearing the Lord is the beginning of moral knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.