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.
“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.”
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.”
“"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.”
“"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:”
“"that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."”
“Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.”
“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:”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.”
“You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.”