Bible Verses About Family Guidance

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?

And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:

These are the statutes, which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father’s house.

And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;