9 Bible Verses about Parenting Responsibilities
Most Relevant Verses
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.
Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they will not become discouraged.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
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.
"In those days they will say no longer, '{Parents} have eaten unripe fruit, and [the] teeth of [the] children {are set on edge}.'
" 'If [there is] {anyone} who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father and his mother--his blood [is] upon him.
Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy; [the] rod of discipline will drive it from him.
For if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, yet [you do] not [have] many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I fathered you through the gospel.
God settles the lonely in a home; he brings prisoners out into prosperity. But the rebellious abide in a barren land.
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- Responsibilities (36 instances)
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