9 Bible Verses about Parenting Responsibilities

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.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

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

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.

In those days they shall no longer say: "'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.