23 Bible Verses about parenthood

from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name,

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

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to practice their religion in regard to their own family and to make some return to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.'

You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, relatives and friends; and they will put some of you to death.

Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not what is yours but you; for children ought not to lay up for their parents, but parents for their children.

"Honor your father and mother" (which is the first commandment with a promise),

But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, 'Whatever help you might have received from me is a gift to God'

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

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.

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

Jesus answered, "Neither this man sinned nor his parents sinned. But that the works of God might be revealed in him,

Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

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

Or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, 'Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is Corban' (that is, a gift devoted to God),

Therefore his parents said, "He is of age; ask him."

What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent?

And when the feast was over, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,

Then when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is full-grown, it brings forth death.

His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child.