9 Bible Verses about Parenting Responsibilities

Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted.

For any man who revileth his father and his mother is certainly put to death; his father and his mother he hath reviled: his blood is on him.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

for if a myriad of child-conductors ye may have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus, through the good news, I -- I did beget you;

God -- causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only -- the refractory have inhabited a dry place.