16 Bible Verses about parenting

Children, be obedient to your parents as a Christian duty, for it is a duty.

Children be obedient to your parents in everything; for that is right for Christians.

Fathers, do not fret and harass your children, or you may make them sullen and morose.

And you, fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up tenderly with true Christian training and advice.

See, I am now for the third time prepared to visit you, but I will not be a dead weight to you. I desire not your money, but yourselves; for children ought not to put by for their parents, but parents for their children.

but he is under the control of guardians and trustees until the time his father has appointed.

and he will be His forerunner in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn fathers' hearts to the children, and cause the rebellious to walk in the wisdom of the upright, to make a people perfectly ready for the lord."

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn first to show piety towards their own homes and to prove their gratitude to their parents; for this is well pleasing in the sight of God.

It is true that they disciplined us for a few years according as they thought fit; but He does it for our certain good, in order that we may become sharers in His own holy character.

If you then, imperfect as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in Heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are living in obedience to the truth.

destitute of natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers. They will have no self-control, but will be brutal, opposed to goodness,

For even if you were to have ten thousand spiritual instructors--for all that you could not have several fathers. It is I who in Christ Jesus became your father through the Good News.

On the contrary, in our relations to you we showed ourselves as gentle as a mother is when she tenderly nurses her own children.

Be shepherds of God's flock which is among you. Exercise the oversight not reluctantly but eagerly, in accordance with the will of God; not for base gain but with cheerful minds;