Bible Verses About Parental Response

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.

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:

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

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

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.

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

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

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that 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?

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

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

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

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

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 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:

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.

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

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

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.

Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

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

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

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.

And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?

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

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.

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?

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

A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.