Bible Verses about “parent advice”
The Bible contains 32 verses about parent advice across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“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 your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.”
“Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.”
“She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.”
“One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.”
“The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.”
“My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:”
“From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.”
“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.”
“All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.”
“Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.”
“But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.”
“Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.”
“These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart;”
“Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.”
“for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.”
“But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.”
“Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.”
“for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.”
“My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:”
“It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?”
“Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?”
“For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.”
“having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.”
“for I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law.”
“For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.”
“Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;”
“He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.”