16 Bible Verses about parenting

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

Children, obey your parents at every point, for this pleases the Lord right well.

Fathers, avoid irritating your children, in case they get dispirited.

As for you fathers, do not exasperate your children, but bring them up in the discipline and on the admonitions of the Lord.

Here am I all ready to pay you my third visit. And I will not be a burden to you; I want yourselves and not your money. Children have not to put money by for their parents; that is what parents do for their children.

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

he will go in front of Him with the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, turning the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make a people ready and prepared for the Lord."

(When a widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn that the first duty of religion is to their own household, and that they should make some return to those who have brought them up. In God's sight this is an acceptable thing.)

For while their discipline was only for a time, and inflicted at their pleasure, he disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his own holiness.

Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him?

I have no greater joy than to hear of my children living in the Truth.

callous, relentless, scurrilous, dissolute, and savage; they will hate goodness,

You may have thousands to superintend you in Christ, but you have not more than one father. It was I who in Christ Jesus became your father by means of the gospel.

no, we behaved gently when we were among you, like a nursing mother cherishing her own children,

be shepherds to your flock of God; take charge of them willingly instead of being pressed to it, not to make a base profit from it but freely,