37 Bible Verses about parenthood

From whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.

But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.

Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.

But you will be given up even by your fathers and mothers, your brothers and relations and friends; and some of you will be put to death.

Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld

The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.

This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.

Why do you make use of this saying about the land of Israel, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are on edge?

Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),

Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.

But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God;

For without doubt there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.

Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

Jesus said in answer, It was not because of his sin, or because of his father's or mother's; it was so that the works of God might be seen openly in him.

Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.

And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.

He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him?

Or which of you, if his son makes a request for bread, will give him a stone?

Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.

But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God,

That was the reason why they said, He is old enough; put the question to him.

And which of you, being a father, will give a stone to his son, who makes request for bread? or for a fish, will give him a snake?

And when the days of the feast came to an end and they were going back, the boy Jesus was still in Jerusalem, but they had no knowledge of it:

Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

And every year his father and mother went to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.

See, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so the soul of the son is mine: death will be the fate of the sinner's soul.

Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with?

Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.