16 Bible Verses about parenting

Children, obey your parents, for this is right.

Children, practice obedience to your parents in everything, for this is acceptable in Christians.

Fathers, stop exasperating your children, so as to keep them from losing heart.

You parents, too, must stop exasperating your children, but continue to bring them up with the sort of education and counsel the Lord approves.

It is now the third time that I have been ready to come to see you, and I will never ask you for financial support, for it is not your money but you yourselves that I want; for children are not by duty bound to lay up money for their parents, but parents for their children.

but he is under guardians and trustees until the time fixed by the father.

He will go before Him in the spirit and the power of Elijah to turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the upright, to make ready for the Lord a people perfectly prepared."

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to practice piety in the treatment of their own families, and to pay the debt they owe their parents or grandparents, for this is acceptable to God.

For they disciplined us only a short time, as it seemed proper to them, but He does it for our good, in order that we may share His holy character.

So if you, in spite of your being bad, know how to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your heavenly Father give what is good to those who keep on asking Him?

I have no greater spiritual blessing than this, to hear that my children are living by the truth.

lacking in love for kinsmen, irreconcilable, slanderers, having no self-control, savage, lacking in love for the good,

For though you have ten thousand teachers in the Christian life, you certainly could not have many fathers. For it was I myself who became your father through your union with Christ Jesus, which resulted from my telling you the good news.

Instead we were little children among you; we were like a mother nursing her children.

be shepherds of the flock of God that is among you, not as though you had to but of your own free will, not from the motive of personal profit but freely,