37 Bible Verses about parenthood
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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, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'
You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death.
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
"What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'?
"Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise),
But you say, 'If anyone tells his father or his mother, "What you would have gained from me is given to God,"
"If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them,
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death.
He who sires a fool gets himself sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.
Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever 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 which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban"' (that is, given to God)--
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 ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,
Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.
Woe to him who says to a father, 'What are you begetting?' or to a woman, 'With what are you in labor?'"
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
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