37 Bible Verses about parenthood

(of whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is named),

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

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let those learn first to govern their house in piety and to recompense their parents, for this is honest and pleasing before God.

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice.

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother, and, He that curses father or mother, let him die without recourse.

And ye shall be betrayed both by parents and brethren and kinsfolk and friends, and some of you they shall cause to be put to death.

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

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begets a wise child shall have joy with him.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not your things, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

What mean ye, that ye use this saying concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge?

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

And he that smites his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, Whatever I might have helped thee with is already my offering unto God,

For surely there is an end, and thy hope shall not be cut off.

When anyone has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them,

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

Now the brother shall deliver the brother unto death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents and shall kill them.

He that begets a fool does it to his sorrow, and the father of a fool shall have no joy.

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

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

Do not withhold correction from the child; for if thou shall beat him with the rod, he shall not die.

And brother shall deliver up brother unto death, and the father the child, and children shall rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death.

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

A wise son takes his father's chastening: but a scorner does not hear rebuke.

He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to those that ask him?

Or what man is there of you, whom, if his son asks for bread, will he give him a stone?

Buy the truth and sell it not, also wisdom and instruction and understanding.

But ye say, It is enough if a man shall say to his father or mother, It is all Corban, (that is to say, my gift to God) whatever with which thou mightest be profited by me.

Therefore his parents said, He is of age, ask him.

If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

And having completed the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it.

Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.

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

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

Woe unto him that says unto his father, Why dost thou beget? or to the woman, Why hast thou brought forth?

Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God; and anyone that loves him that begat also loves him that is born of him.