32 Bible Verses about parenting

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

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

And he shall 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.

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

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety at home, and so repay their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

You shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

Hear, you children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

For this child I prayed; and the LORD has given me my petition which I asked of him:

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with a rod, he shall not die.

Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have you not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherishes her children:

He that spares his rod hates his son: but he that loves him chastens him early.

And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house, and on your gates.

And all your children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of your children.

For every one that curses his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac:

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for dishonest gain, but of a ready mind;

And the boys grew: and Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.