9 Bible Verses about Parenting Responsibilities

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not what is yours, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

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

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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

"'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

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

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.