Bible Verses About Parenting

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

His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.

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

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

For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

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

That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

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

That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,

Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

And the brother will deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children will rise up against [their] parents, and cause them to be put to death.

And he came by the spirit into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,

And he said to them, Verily I say to you, there is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children for the sake of the kingdom of God,

And ye will be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsmen, and friends; and [some] of you will they cause to be put to death.

And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?

Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

But the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight.

These [words] his parents spoke, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man confessed that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventers of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.

And her parents were astonished: but he charged them that they should tell no man what was done.

His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:

Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.

With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: why then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

Now the brother will betray the brother to death, and the father the son: and children will rise up against [their] parents, and will cause them to be put to death.

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.

But if any widow hath children or nephews, let them learn first to show piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

For men will be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,