21 Bible Verses About Parental Influence

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:

And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan–aram;

And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,

And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.

And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son.

And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.

And the Israelitish woman’s son blasphemed the name of the Lord, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)

And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.

Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the Lord before Eli the priest.

And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.

And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father.

For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.

And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.

And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.