16 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 in the Lord.

Fathers, be not fault-finding with your children, that they be not discouraged.

And, fathers, provoke not your children, but bring them up in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

Behold, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be burdensome to you; for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed by the father.

And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

But if any widow has children or relatives, let them learn first to support their family and to make returns to their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

For they for a few days corrected us as seemed good to them, but he for the best, that we may partake of his holiness.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to them that ask him.

I have no greater joy than this, that I hear of my children walking in the truth.

without natural affection, covenant breakers, slanderers, intemperate, ungentle, despisers of the good,

For if you have ten thousand teachers in Christ still you have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you by the gospel.

but we were gentle among you, as a nurse would cherish her own children;

feed the flock of God which is among you, not by constraint but willingly, not for base gain but of a ready mind,