37 Bible Verses about parenthood

from whom every family in heaven and on earth receives its name.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up by training and instructing them about the Lord.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to respect their own family by repaying their parents, for this is pleasing in God's sight.

Let your father and mother rejoice; make the one who gave birth to you happy.

Because God said, "You are to honor your father and your mother,' and, "Whoever curses father or mother must certainly be put to death.'

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

Punish him with a rod, and you will rescue his soul from Sheol.

The father of a righteous person will greatly rejoice; whoever fathers a wise son will be glad because of him.

Now I'm ready to visit you for a third time, and I will not bother you for help. I do not want your things, but rather you yourselves. Children should not have to support their parents, but parents their children.

"Why do you cite this proverb when you talk about Israel's land: "The fathers eat sour grapes but it's their children's teeth that have become numb.'

"Honor your father and mother"" (This is a very important commandment with a promise.)

"Whoever strikes his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.

But you say, "Whoever tells his father or his mother, "Whatever support you might have received from me has been given to God,"

for there is surely a future life, and what you hope for will not be cut off.

"If a man has a stubborn son who does not obey his parents, and although they try to discipline him, he still refuses to pay attention to them,

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

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.

The man who fathers a fool does so to his sorrow the father of a fool has no joy.

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

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so that God's work might be revealed in him.

Don't withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with a rod, he won't die.

"Brother will hand brother over for execution, and a father his child. Children will rebel against parents and have them put to death.

Listen to the one who fathered you, and don't despise your mother in her old age.

A wise son heeds a father's correction, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.

"The one who loves his father or mother more than me isn't worthy of me, and the one who loves a son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.

So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who keep on asking him!

"There isn't a person among you who would give his son a stone if he asked for bread, is there?

Purchase truth, but don't sell it; store up wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

But you say, "If anyone tells his father or mother, "Whatever support you might have received from me is Corban,"' (that is, an offering to God)

That's why his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."

What father among you, if his son asks for bread, would give him a stone, or if he asks for a fish, would give him a snake instead of the fish?

When the days of the festival were over, they left for home. The young man Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it.

When that desire becomes pregnant, it gives birth to sin; and when that sin grows up, it gives birth to death.

Every year Jesus' parents would go to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival.

Look! Every living soul belongs to me the father's as well as the son's. So pay attention! The person who keeps on sinning is going to die."

Woe to the one who says to his father, "What are you begetting?' or to a woman, "To what are you giving birth?'!"

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born from God, and everyone who loves the parent also loves the child.