Bible Verses About Parents And Parenting

But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

widows should repay their parents

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

direct parenting duty from Ephesians

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

direct New Testament command

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

commandment of honor from the law

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

same command with promise

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

direct honor command from Deuteronomy

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

pairs honor with warning against reviling

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

Mark version of the command

Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Old-age care and honoring mother.

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

direct obedience command

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

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The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

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Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Children ought not lay up for parents; relevant to care and support.

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?

earthly fathers disciplined and were respected

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

instruction from father and mother

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

household leadership with children in submission

And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

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

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And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

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The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

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Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

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Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

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

Children bringing joy to parents.

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.