32 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 well-pleasing in the Lord.

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

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 yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

And ye shall teach them your children, talking of them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed of the father.

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

In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

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

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.

Hear, my'sons, the instruction of a father, And attend to know understanding:

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, So are the children of youth.

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

A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.

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

For this child I prayed; and Jehovah hath given me my petition which I asked of him:

Greater joy have I none than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.

Withhold not correction from the child; For if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; But the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

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

But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:

He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.

And all thy children shall be taught of Jehovah; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham begat Isaac.

Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

And the boys grew. And Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field. And Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.