14 Bible Verses about Parental Love

And the king was moved and went up to a chamber over the gate and wept. And as he went thus he said, "My son Absalom, my son, my son, my son Absalom, would to God I had died for thee Absalom, my son, my son."

Whoso keepeth the law, is a child of understanding; but he that feedeth riotous men, shameth his father.

The rod and correction minister wisdom; but if a child be not looked unto, he bringeth his mother to shame.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet son is a heaviness unto his mother.

An indiscreet son is a grief unto his father; and a heaviness unto his mother that bare him.

Whoso loveth wisdom, maketh his father a glad man; but he that keepeth harlots, spendeth away that he hath.

A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet body shameth his mother.

for a righteous father is marvelous glad of a wise son, and delighteth in him.

My son, be wise, and thou shalt make me a glad heart; so that I shall make answer unto my rebukers.

And bring hither that fatted calf, and kill him, and let us eat and be merry: for this my son was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is now found.' And they began to be merry.

And he said unto him, "Go and see whether it be well with thy brethren and the sheep, and bring me word again." And sent him out of the vale of Hebron, for to go to Shechem.

And now when thou art departed from me, thou shalt meet two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the borders of Benjamin, even at Zelzah. And they will say unto thee, "The asses which thou wentest to seek, are found; see, thy father hath left the care of the asses and sorroweth for you, saying, 'What shall I do for my son?'"

And the king said, "Is the lad Absalom safe?" And Ahimaaz answered, "I saw a great ado, when the king's servant Joab sent me thy servant. But I know not what it was."

And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's building, that he might know how Esther did, and what should become of her.

And Sara my master's wife bare him a son, when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.

Moreover, his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from feast to feast when she came up with her husband to offer the offering of the said feast.

If ye then, which are evil, can give to your children good gifts, how much more shall your father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask of him?

And Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he begat him in his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.

And she said, "Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a southward and dry land: give me also springs of water." Then he gave her springs of water, both above and beneath.