32 Bible Verses about parenting

Children, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for so is it right.

Children, obey your fathers and mothers, in all things, for that is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be of a desperate mind.

And ye fathers, move not your children to wrath: but bring them up with the nurture and information of the Lord.

Behold now, the third time, I am ready to come unto you, and yet will I not be grievous unto you. For I seek not yours, but you. Also the children ought not to lay up for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the children.

and teach them your children: so that thou talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down and when thou risest 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 their children, and the unbelievers to the wisdom of the just men: to make the people ready for the Lord."

Then shall it no more be said, 'The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

If any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to rule their own houses godly, and to recompense their elders. For that is good and acceptable before God.

See that ye fear every man his father and his mother, and that ye keep my Sabbaths, for I am the LORD your God.

Hear, O ye children, the fatherly exhortation, and take good heed, that ye may learn wisdom.

Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant, even so are the young children.

And they verily for a few days nurtured us after their own pleasure; but he learneth us unto that which is profitable, that we might receive of his holiness.

An indiscreet son is a grief unto his father; and a heaviness unto his mother that bare him.

If ye then, which are evil, can give to your children good gifts, how much more shall your father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask of him?

And for this lad I prayed, and the LORD hath given me my desire which I asked of him:

I have no greater joy than for to hear how that my sons walk in verity.

Withhold not correction from the child; for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die thereof.

unkind, trucebreakers, stubborn, false accusers, rioters, fierce, despisers of them which are good,

Foolishness sticketh in the heart of the lad; but the rod of correction driveth it away.

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

But were tender among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children,

He that spareth the rod, hateth his son; but whoso loveth him, chastiseth him betimes.

and shalt write them upon the posts of thy house and upon thy gates.

Thy children shall all be taught of God, and I will give them plenteousness of peace.

"'Whosoever curseth his father or mother, shall die for it, his blood on his head, because he hath cursed his father or mother.

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

see that ye feed Christ's flock, which is among you, taking the oversight of them: not as though ye were compelled thereto, but willingly; Not for the desire of filthy lucre, but of a good mind.

and the boys grew, and Esau became a cunning hunter and a tillman. But Jacob was a simple man and dwelled in the tents.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. But fools despise wisdom and instruction.