32 Bible Verses about parenting
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Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is the right thing to do.
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
Fathers, do not make your children resentful. Otherwise, they'll become discouraged.
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up by training and instructing them about the Lord.
Now I'm ready to visit you for a third time, and I will not bother you for help. I do not want your things, but rather you yourselves. Children should not have to support their parents, but parents their children.
Teach them to your children, talking about them while sitting in your house, walking on the road, or when you are about to lie down or get up.
Instead, he is placed under the care of guardians and servant managers until the time set by the father.
He is the one who will go before the Lord with the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, and to prepare the people to be ready for the Lord."
"In those days people will no longer say, "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, but the children's teeth have been set on edge.'
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to respect their own family by repaying their parents, for this is pleasing in God's sight.
"Each of you is to fear his mother and father. "Observe my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
Listen, children, to your father's instruction, and pay attention in order to gain understanding.
For a short time they disciplined us as they thought best, but God does it for our good, so that we may share in his holiness.
A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.
So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who keep on asking him!
Don't withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with a rod, he won't die.
A child's heart has a tendency to do wrong, but the rod of discipline removes it far away from him.
You may have 10,000 mentors who work for the Messiah, but not many fathers. For in the Messiah Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
even though as apostles of the Messiah we might have made such demands. Instead, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother tenderly caring for her own children.
Whoever does not discipline his son hates him, but whoever loves him is diligent to correct him.
Then all your children will be taught by the LORD, and great will be your children's prosperity.
"Anyone who curses his father or mother is certainly to be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother, so his guilt will remain his responsibility."
Be shepherds of God's flock that is among you, watching over it, not because you must but because you want to, and not greedily but eagerly, as God desires.
As the boys were growing up, Esau became skilled at hunting and was a man of the outdoors, but Jacob was the quiet type who tended to stay indoors.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
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2 Corinthians 12:14Now I'm ready to visit you for a third time, and I will not bother you for help. I do not want your things, but rather you yourselves. Children should not have to support their parents, but parents their children.
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