15 Bible Verses about parenting

Children, as Christians obey your parents, for that is right.

Children, always obey your parents, for that is commendable in Christians.

Fathers, do not irritate your children, or they may lose heart.

You fathers, too, must not irritate your children, but you must bring them up with Christian training and instruction.

Here it is the third time that I have been ready to come to see you, and I do not intend to be a burden to you now; for it is not your money but yourselves that I want; for children are not expected to lay up money for their parents, but parents for their children.

but he is under guardians and trustees until the time fixed by his father.

He will go before him with the spirit and the power of Elijah, to reconcile fathers to their children, and to bring the disobedient back to the wisdom of upright men, to make a people perfectly ready for the Lord."

If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety in the treatment of their own families, and to return the care of those who brought them up, for that is what God approves.

For they disciplined us for a short time and as they thought proper, but he does it for our good, to make us share his holiness.

So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give what is good to those who ask him for it!

I know of no greater blessing than hearing that my children are being guided by the truth.

unfeeling, irreconcilable, slanderous, with no self-control, brutal, with no love for what is good,

For no matter how many guides you may have in the Christian life, you will not have many fathers; for in this matter of union with Christ, I became your father, through preaching the good news to you.

We were children when we were with you; we were like a mother nursing her children.