16 Bible Verses about parenting

Children, obey your parents, as children of the Lord; for that is but right.

Children, always obey your parents; for that is pleasant to see in those who belong to the Lord.

Fathers, never irritate your children, lest they should become disheartened.

And fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up with Christian discipline and instruction.

Remember, this is the third time that I have made every preparation to come to see you, and I shall refuse to be a burden to you; I want, not your money, but you. It is not the duty of children to put by for their parents, but of parents to put by for their children.

He is subject to the control of guardians and stewards, during the period for which his father has power to appoint them.

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

but, if a widow has children or grand-children, let them learn to show proper regard for the members of their own family first, and to make some return to their parents; for that is pleasing in God's sight.

Our fathers disciplined us for only a short time and as seemed best to them; but God disciplines us for our true good, to enable us to share his holiness.

If you, then, wicked though you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in Heaven give what is good to those that ask him!

Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to hear from time to time that the lives of my Children are guided by the Truth.

incapable of affection, merciless, slanderous, wanting in self-control, brutal, careless of the right,

Though you may have thousands of instructors in the Faith of Christ, yet you have not many fathers. It was I who, through union with Christ Jesus, became your father by means of the Good News.

But we lived among you with the simplicity of a child; we were like a woman nursing her own children.

I urge you to be true shepherds of the flock of God among you, not because you are compelled, but of your own free will; not from a base love of gain, but with a ready spirit;