Bible Verses about “parenting”
The Bible contains 23 verses about parenting across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
“¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
“Lo, children [are] an heritage of the LORD: [and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward.”
“¶ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.”
“¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”
“Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)”
“That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.”
“Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged.”
“¶ He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.”
“¶ The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left [to himself] bringeth his mother to shame.”
“My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:”
“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.”
“Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.”
“Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.”
“And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:”
“¶ Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.”
“For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.”
“But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.”
“If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?”
“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?”
“For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness.”
“And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.”
“And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.”