Bible Verses About Parental Guidance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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.

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

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

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

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.

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 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.

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.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

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.

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

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

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

Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

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

My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: