37 Bible Verses about parenthood

of whom every family in the heavens and on earth is named,

And ye fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice.

For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.

But ye will be delivered up even by parents and brethren and relations and friends, and they shall put to death some from among you,

thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

The father of a righteous man shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise son shall have joy of him:

Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be in laziness a charge; for I do not seek yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

What mean ye, ye who use this proverb of the land of Israel, saying, The fathers eat sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?

Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,

And he that striketh his father, or his mother, shall certainly be put to death.

But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, whatsoever it be by which received from me thou wouldest be profited:

for surely there is a result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

If a man have an unmanageable and rebellious son, who hearkeneth not unto the voice of his father, nor unto the voice of his mother, and they have chastened him, but he hearkeneth not unto them;

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow, and the father of a vile man hath no joy.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.

Jesus answered, Neither has this man sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God should be manifested in him.

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

But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents and shall put them to death;

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

A wise son heareth his father's instruction; but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

If therefore ye, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to them that ask of him?

Or what man is there of you who, if his son shall ask of him a loaf of bread, will give him a stone;

Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.

But ye say, If a man say to his father or his mother, It is corban (that is, gift), whatsoever thou mightest have profit from me by ...

On this account his parents said, He is of age: ask him.

But of whom of you that is a father shall a son ask bread, and the father shall give him a stone? or also a fish, and instead of a fish shall give him a serpent?

and had completed the days, as they returned, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, and his parents knew not of it;

then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin fully completed brings forth death.

And his parents went yearly to Jerusalem at the feast of the passover.

Behold, all the souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? Or to his mother, What hast thou brought forth?

Every one that believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God; and every one that loves him that has begotten loves also him that is begotten of him.