Bible Verses about “being a good parent”

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

“Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.”

“You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”

“Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.”

“For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.”

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

“Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.”

“As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.”

“Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. A Song of Ascents.”

“"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:”

“Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.”

“"that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."”

“If you love me, keep my commandments.”

“"Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.”

“But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.”

“each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.”

“Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.”

“If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.”

“Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;”

“In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.”

“If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.”

“Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.”

“but his delight is in Yahweh's law. On his law he meditates day and night.”

“I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,--”

“I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.”

“Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.”

“the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.”

“Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."”

“He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.”

“One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."”

“If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him."”

“Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.”

“You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.”

“I have said these things to you, while still living with you.”

“Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?"”

“In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.”

“"Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

“Where I go, you know, and you know the way."”

“He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.”

“Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'”

“Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.”

“Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you may believe.”

“Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going. How can we know the way?"”

“But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.”

“I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.”

“Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works' sake.”

“Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us."”

“Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.”

“and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.”