16 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 to the Lord:

and ye fathers, do not irritate your children, least they be discouraged.

And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children: but educate them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your substance, but your selves. For children are not expected to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

but is under guardians and managers till the time appointed by the father.

And he shall go before Him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers unto the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to prepare for the Lord a people well-disposed.

But if any widow have children or grandchildren, let these learn first to shew piety at home, and to make suitable returns to their parents: for this is becoming, and acceptable in the sight of God.

For they indeed corrected us for a while, as seemed good to them; but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

If ye then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to them that ask Him?

And I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in the truth.

without natural affection, perfidious, false accusers, intemperate, savage, enemies to the good, traitors,

for if ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet ye have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you by the gospel.

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

taking the episcopal charge of it, not by constraint, but willingly; not for shameful lucre, but with a ready mind: