Bible Verses About Parenting Challenges

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

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

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;

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?

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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?