Bible Verses About Parenting

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

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

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

The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.

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

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

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