Bible Verses About Parental Dilemma

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

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up 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 yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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:

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.

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

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

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

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

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

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

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

For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

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

And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back.

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

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.

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

The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father’s sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.

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

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

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

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.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

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.

And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.

For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.