16 Bible Verses about parenting

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

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is well pleasing in Christians.

Fathers, do not harass your children, lest you make them spiritless.

And you fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up in the nature and admonition of the Lord.

And now for the third time I am preparing to visit you. I will not be a burden to you, for I am not seeking yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

but is under the control of guardians and trustees, until the time appointed by his father.

"He shall go before Him in the wisdom and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, and so to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him."

but if any widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn to show their piety first toward their own household, and to make some return to their parents, for that is pleasing in God's sight.

For they only disciplined us for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, that we may share his holiness.

"If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him?

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

without natural affection, merciless, slanderous, dissolute, and brutal.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ Jesus, you can have but one father. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.

On the contrary I showed myself among you as gentle as a mother, when she tenderly nurses her own children.

Be shepherds to your flock of God; take charge of them willingly, and not through compulsion; not for filthy lucre, but with a willing mind;