32 Bible Verses about parenting

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

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

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

And fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Behold, this third [time] I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden [to you]. For I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

And you shall teach them to your children by talking about them when you sit in your house and when you travel on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.

but he is under guardians and managers until the time set by [his] father.

And he will go on 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 righteous, to prepare for the Lord a people made ready."

"In those days they will say no longer, '{Parents} have eaten unripe fruit, and [the] teeth of [the] children {are set on edge}.'

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to show profound respect for their own household first, and to pay back recompense to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

Each [of you] must revere your mother and your father, and you must keep my Sabbaths; I [am] Yahweh your God.

Children, listen [to the] instruction of a father, and be attentive [in order] to know insight.

Like arrows in [the] hand of a warrior, so [are] the children of [one's] youth.

For they disciplined [us] for a few days according to what seemed [appropriate] to them, but he [does so] for our benefit, in order that [we] can have a share in his holiness.

A grief to his father [is] the child of a fool, and bitterness to her who bore him.

Therefore if you, [although you] 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 prayed for this boy, and Yahweh has given me my request that I asked from him.

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

Do not withhold discipline from a child, if you will beat him with the rod, he will not die.

hardhearted, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, with no interest for what is good,

Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy; [the] rod of discipline will drive it from him.

For if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, yet [you do] not [have] many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I fathered you through the gospel.

{Although we could have insisted on our own importance} as apostles of Christ, yet we became infants in your midst, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

He who withholds his rod hates his child, but he who loves him {gives him} discipline.

And you shall write them on the doorframe of your house and on your gates.

And all your children [shall be] pupils of Yahweh, and the peace of your children [shall be] great.

" 'If [there is] {anyone} who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father and his mother--his blood [is] upon him.

Now these [are] the generations of Isaac, the son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac,

shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not by compulsion but willingly, in accordance with God, and not greedily but eagerly,

And the boys grew up. And Esau [was] a skilled hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob [was] a peaceful man, living [in] tents.

Fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge; wisdom and instruction, fools despise.