37 Bible Verses about parenthood

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

And fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to show profound respect for their own household first, and to pay back recompense to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

May your father and your mother be glad, and may she who bore you rejoice.

For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'The one who speaks evil of father or mother {must certainly die}.'

And you will be handed over even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put to death [some] of you.

As for you, with the rod you shall beat him, and his life you will save from Sheol.

The father of the righteous will surely rejoice; he who bears a wise person will be happy with him.

Behold, this third [time] I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden [to you]. For I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

"{What do you mean by} quoting this proverb about the land of Israel, {saying}, 'The fathers, they ate unripe fruit, and the teeth of the child became blunt.'

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

And {whoever strikes} his father or his mother will surely be put to death.

But you say, 'Whoever says to his father or his mother, "Whatever {benefit you would have received} from me [is] a gift [to God],"

{Surely} there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

"{If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son} [who] {does not listen to} the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they discipline him, and he does not obey them,

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

And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father [his] child, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.

He who begets a fool, [there is] trouble for him; the father of a fool will not rejoice.

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

Jesus replied, "Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but [it happened] so that the works of God could be revealed in him.

Do not withhold discipline from a child, if you will beat him with the rod, he will not die.

"And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father [his] children, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death,

Listen to your father--he who {gave you life}, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

A wise child [hears] the discipline of a father, but a scoffer does not listen to a rebuke.

The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Therefore if you, [although you] 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 is [there] among you, [if] his son will ask him [for] bread, will give him a stone?

Buy truth and do not sell [it], wisdom and instruction and understanding.

But you say, 'If a man says to his father or to his mother, "Whatever {benefit you would have received} from me [is] corban" (that is, a gift [to God]),

Because of this his parents said, "{He is a mature adult}; ask him.")

But what father from among you, [if his] son will ask for a fish, instead of a fish will give him a snake?

And [after] the days were completed, while they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. And his parents did not know [it],

Then desire, [after it] has conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, [when it] is brought to completion, gives birth to death.

And his parents went every year to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover.

Look! {All lives are mine}. {The lives of father and son alike are mine}. The person sinning will die.

Woe [to the] one who says to a father, 'What you are begetting?' or to a woman, '[With] what are you in labor?'"

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves {the father} also loves the [child] fathered by him.