9 Bible Verses about Parenting Responsibilities

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.

Fathers, do not make your children resentful. Otherwise, they'll become discouraged.

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

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.

"In those days people will no longer say, "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, but the children's teeth have been set on edge.'

"Anyone who curses his father or mother is certainly to be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother, so his guilt will remain his responsibility."

A child's heart has a tendency to do wrong, but the rod of discipline removes it far away from him.

You may have 10,000 mentors who work for the Messiah, but not many fathers. For in the Messiah Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

God causes the lonely to dwell in families. He leads prisoners into prosperity, but rebels live on parched land.