32 Bible Verses about parenting

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

Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.

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

Here for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you; for children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

You shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up.

but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by the father.

It is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous, so as to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

“In those days they will not say again,
‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
And the children’s teeth are set on edge.’

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

Every one of you shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep My sabbaths; I am the Lord your God.

Hear, O sons, the instruction of a father,
And give attention that you may gain understanding,

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,
So are the children of one’s youth.

For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.

A foolish son is a grief to his father
And bitterness to her who bore him.

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

For this boy I prayed, and the Lord has given me my petition which I asked of Him.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.

Do not hold back discipline from the child,
Although you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;
The rod of discipline will remove it far from him.

For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

But we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children.

He who withholds his rod hates his son,
But he who loves him disciplines him diligently.

You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

“All your sons will be taught of the Lord;
And the well-being of your sons will be great.

‘If there is anyone who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother, his bloodguiltiness is upon him.

Now these are the records of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham became the father of Isaac;

shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not under compulsion, but voluntarily, according to the will of God; and not for sordid gain, but with eagerness;

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a peaceful man, living in tents.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.