31 Bible Verses about Parents Duty To Children

to make the young women soberminded, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Then were brought to him young children, that he should put his hands on them and pray. And his disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said unto them, "Suffer the children, and forbid them not to come to me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven."

If thou teachest a child in his youth what way he should go; he shall not leave it when he is old.

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

Take heed to thyself therefore only and keep thy soul diligently, that thou forget not the things which thine eyes have seen, and that they depart not out of thine heart, all the days of thine life: but teach them thy sons, and thy son's sons.

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 the living, yea the living acknowledge thee, like as I do this day. The father telleth his children of thy faithfulness.

Tell your children of it, and let them show it to their children, and so they - to certify their posterity thereof.

and that thou tell in the audience of thy son and of thy son's son, the pageants which I have played in Egypt, and the miracles which I have done among them: that ye may know how that I am the LORD."

that we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come but to show the honour of the LORD, his mighty and wonderful works that he hath done.

And thou, Solomon my son: know God thy father and serve him with a pure heart and lust of soul. For the LORD searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of thoughts. If thou shalt seek him, he will be found of thee: But and if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.

And he blessed Joseph saying, "God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, and the God which hath fed me all my life long unto this day;

In faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, as concerning things to come.

Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children, even so is the LORD merciful unto them that fear him.

In all the land were none found so fair, as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

If there be any that provideth not for his own, and namely for them of his household, the same denieth the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

and one that ruleth his own house honestly, having children under obedience, with all honesty.

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

Chasten thy son while there is hope; but let not thy soul be moved to slay him.

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

Nurture thy son with correction, and he shall comfort thee; yea, he shall do the good at thine heart.

If ye shall endure chastening, God offereth himself unto you, as unto sons. What son is that whom the father chasteneth not?

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

Abraham was old and stricken in days, and the LORD had blessed him in all things. And he said unto his eldest servant of his house which had the rule over all that he had, "Put thy hand under my thigh that I may make thee swear by the LORD that is God of heaven and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son, of the daughters of the Canaanites, among which I dwell.read more.
But shalt go unto my country and to my kindred, and there take a wife unto my son Isaac."

Then Isaac called Jacob his son and blessed him, and charged him and said unto him, "See thou take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan, but arise and get thee to Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father: and there take thee a wife of the daughters of Laban, thy mother's brother.

And Abraham said unto God, "O that Ishmael might live in thy sight!"

And give unto Solomon my son, a pure heart to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies and thine ordinances, and to do all, and to build the house which I intended."

And it fortuned that when they had passed over the time of their banqueting round about; Job sent for them, and sanctified them, and gat up early, and offered for every one a burnt offering. For Job thought thus: "Peradventure my sons have done some offense, and have been unthankful to God in their hearts." And thus did Job everyday.

And David besought God for the boy and fasted and went and lay all night upon the earth.

and besought him greatly saying, "My daughter lieth at point of death, I would thou wouldst come and lay thy hand on her, that she might be safe and live."

And Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he turned water into wine. And there was a certain ruler, whose son was sick at Capernaum.