37 Bible Verses about parenthood

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

And fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Let your father and your mother be glad. Let her who bore you rejoice.

For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not what is yours, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

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

"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:

"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,"

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

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

Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

Do not withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

"And brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.

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

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him.

Or who is there among you, who, if his son will ask him for bread, will give him a stone?

Buy the truth, and do not sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God;"'

Therefore his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."

"Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

His parents went every year to Jerusalem 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 who sins, he shall die.

Woe to him who says to a father, 'What have you become the father of?' or to a mother, 'To what have you given birth?'"

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.