Bible Verses About Parenting

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

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 .

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

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.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

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

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

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.

That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

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?

And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.