16 Bible Verses about parenting

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

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, or they will become discouraged.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Here for 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 children ought not to lay up for their parents, but parents for their children.

but he is under guardians and trustees until the date set by the father.

And he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to practice their religion in regard to their own family and to make some return to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

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

But we were gentle among you, like a mother nursing her little children.

shepherd the flock of God that is under your care, serving as overseersnot under compulsion, but voluntarily, according to the will of God; and not for sordid gain, but with eagerness;