21 Bible Verses about parenthood

from Whom every family in Heaven and on earth is named,

And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

But, if any widow has children or grand-children, let them learn first to show regard to their own family, and to make returns to their parents; for this is acceptable before God.

For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'He that speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die,'

But ye will be delivered up even by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends; and they will put some of you to death.

Behold, this 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.

"Honor your father and mother" (which, indeed, is the first commandment with a promise),

But ye say, 'Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That by which you might be profited by me is an offering,'

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

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

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

Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

"And brother will deliver up brother to death; and father, his child; and children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

"He that loves father or mother more than Me, is not worthy of Me; and he that loves son or daughter more than Me, is not worthy of Me.

If, therefore, ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father Who is in Heaven give good things to those asking Him?

Or what man is there of you who, if his son shall ask him for bread, will give him a stone?

But ye say, 'If a man say to his father or mother, That wherewith you might be profited by me is Corban,' that is, 'an offering to God,'

On this account, his parents said, "He is of age; ask him."

And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask bread, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he, instead of a fish, give him a serpent?

Then the desire, having conceived, brings forth sin; and sin, when completed, brings forth death.

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten of God; and every one who loves Him Who begat loves him also that has been begotten of Him.