23 Bible Verses about parenthood

from whom every fatherhood in heaven and earth is named,

And you fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up in the nature and admonition of the Lord.

but if any widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn to show their piety first toward their own household, and to make some return to their parents, for that is pleasing in God's sight.

"For God said, Honor your father and mother, and, Let him who reviles father or mother be put to death;

"You will be betrayed even by parents or brothers and kinsfolk, and friends.

And now for the third time I am preparing to visit you. I will not be a burden to you, for I am not seeking yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise attached),

but you say that whoever tells his father or mother, 'Whatever of mine might have been of service to you is dedicated to God,'

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is well pleasing in Christians.

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

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

"Neither he nor his parents sinned." replied Jesus; "it happened that the works of God might be made manifest in him.

"And brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against their parents and put them 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, evil as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him?

"What man of you is there who, when his son asks a loaf, will give him a stone?

you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money which otherwise you would have received from me, is Korban' (that is, a thing devoted to God),

It was because this that his parents said: "He is of age. Ask him, himself."

"What father is there among you who, if his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish will give him instead a serpent?

After spending the full number of days they started home, but the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem. Joseph and his mother did not know this,

Then lust conceives and gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is mature, brings forth death.

Now his parents were accustomed to go up to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover.

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God; and every one who loves the Father, loves him also who is the Father's Child.