14 Bible Verses about Parental Love

And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept. And as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

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

He who loves wisdom delights his father, but he who keeps company with harlots wastes [his] substance.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.

And having brought the fatted calf, kill it, and having eaten, we will be cheerful, because this my son was dead, and became alive again. And he was lost, and is found. And they began to be cheerful.

And he said to him, Go now, see whether it is well with thy brothers, and well with the flock, and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

When thou are departed from me today, then thou shall find two men by Rachel's sepulcher in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah. And they will say to thee, The donkeys which thou went to seek are found, and, lo, thy father has left of

And the king said, Is it well with the young man Absalom? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, even me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.

And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house to know how Esther did, and what would become of her.

And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old. And has he given to him all that he has.

Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

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

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made for him a coat of many colors.

And she said, Give me a blessing, because thou have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.