Bible Verses About Parental Responsibility

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.

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.

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

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:

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

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

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.

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

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

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

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

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

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

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

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.

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;

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,

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

If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

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

And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.

Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely 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.

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

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

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

But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

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