16 Bible Verses about parenting

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

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is wellpleasing to the Lord.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be disheartened.

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

Behold, I am ready the third time to come to you, and I will not burden you: for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

but is under guardians and managers till the time appointed by the father.

And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient, by the wisdom of the just, in order to make ready for the Lord a prepared people.

But if any widow has children or grand-children, let them learn first to be dutiful to their own family, and to requite their parents; for that is good and acceptable in the sight of God.

For they, indeed, for a few days, chastened us as they thought it good; but he chastens us for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

If then you, 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?

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in the truth.

without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, intemperate, fierce, haters of those who are good,

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet you have not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

But we were gentle among you. As a nurse nourishes her children,

Act as shepherds to the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; not for the sake of sordid gain, but from readiness of mind: