37 Bible Verses about parenthood

which is father over all that is called father in heaven and in earth, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory,

And ye fathers, move not your children to wrath: but bring them up with the nurture and information of the Lord.

If any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to rule their own houses godly, and to recompense their elders. For that is good and acceptable before God.

So shall thy father be glad, and thy mother that bare thee, shall rejoice.

For God commanded, saying, 'Honour thy father and mother,' and, 'He that curseth father or mother, shall suffer death.'

Yea, and ye shall be betrayed of your fathers and mothers, and of your brethren, and kinsmen, and lovers. And some of you shall they put to death.

Thou smitest him with the rod; but thou deliverest his soul from hell.

for a righteous father is marvelous glad of a wise son, and delighteth in him.

Behold now, the third time, I am ready to come unto you, and yet will I not be grievous unto you. For I seek not yours, but you. Also the children ought not to lay up for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the children.

"What mean ye by this common proverb, that ye use in the land of Israel, saying, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'?

"Honour thy father and mother," that is the first commandment that hath any promise,

And he that smiteth his father or his mother, shall die for it.

But ye say, 'Every man shall say to his father or mother: That which thou desirest of me to help thee with, is given God.'

For the end is not yet come and thy patient abiding shall not be in vain.

If any man have a son that is stubborn, and disobedient, that he will not hearken unto the voice of his father and voice of his mother, and they have taught him nurture, but he would not hearken unto them:

Children, obey your fathers and mothers, in all things, for that is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Yea, and the brother shall deliver the brother to death. And the father the son, and the children shall rise against their fathers and mothers, and shall put them to death.

An unwise body bringeth himself in to sorrow; and the father of a fool can have no joy.

Children, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for so is it right.

Jesus answered, "Neither this man hath sinned, nor yet his father and mother: but that the works of God should be showed on him.

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

The brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son: and the children shall arise against their fathers, and mothers, and shall put them to death,

Give ear unto thy father that begat thee; and despise not thy mother when she is old.

A wise son will receive his father's warning; but he that is scornful, will not hear when he is reproved.

He that loveth his father or mother more than me, is not meet for me: and he that loveth his son or daughter more than me, is not meet for me.

If ye then, which are evil, can give to your children good gifts, how much more shall your father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask of him?

Is there any man among you which, if his son asked him bread, would offer him a stone?

Labour for to get the truth, sell not away wisdom, nurture and understanding;

But ye say, 'A man shall say to his father or mother, Corban; which is, that thou desirest of me, to help thee with, is given to God.'

Therefore said his father and mother, "He is old enough, ask him."

If the son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father: will he give him a stone? Or if he ask fish, will he for a fish, give him a serpent?

And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned home, the child Jesus bode still in Jerusalem, unknowing to his father and mother.

Then when lust hath conceived, she bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death.

And his father and mother went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of Easter.

Behold, all souls are mine. Like as the father is mine, so is the son mine also. The soul that sinneth, shall die.

Woe be unto him that sayeth to his father, "Why begettest thou?" And to his mother, "Why bearest thou?"

All that believe that Jesus is Christ, are born of God. And all that loveth him which begat, loveth him also which was begotten of him.