16 Bible Verses about parenting

Children, obey your christian parents: for this is the law.

children, obey your parents upon all occasions, for that is graceful in a christian.

fathers, don't treat your children with severity, lest they be discourag'd.

and you fathers don't exasperate your children: but instruct them in the discipline and institution of the Lord.

This is the third time I purposed to come to you; but I will not be burdensome to you; for I seek not yours, but you: since it is not expected children should lay up for their parents, but parents for their children: on the contrary,

being under tutors and guardians, 'till the time prefix'd by his father.

and he shall march before him, in the spirit and power of Elias, to reconcile parents and children together, and the unruly to the practice of justice, that the people may be duly dispos'd to receive the Lord.

if a widow has children or grand-children, let them above all things instruct their own family to be religious, and let them be grateful to their parents, for this is acceptable to God.

their discipline was temporary, and the effect of humour; whereas God chastises us for our advantage, to make us partakers of his holiness.

if ye then, as wicked as ye are, know how to bestow proper gifts upon your children; how much more shall your heavenly father give good things to them that ask him?

greater joy I cannot have, than to hear that my children are attach'd to the truth.

villainous, unnatural, perfidious, defamers, debauchees,

for though you may have ten thousand christian preceptors, you cannot have many fathers; since it was I that first instructed you in the gospel of Christ Jesus:

we behav'd to you with a tender regard, even as a mother, who nurses her own children.

to exhort you to feed the flock of God, which is among you: to take care of it, voluntarily, without reluctance, not from any view to sordid gain, but out of real affection;