Bible Verses About Parenting
Scriptures for fathers and mothers raising children in faith.
Fathers and mothers are entrusted with the sacred task of stewarding the souls of the next generation. This humbling invitation requires a supernatural wisdom that only the Holy Spirit can provide through a life of prayer and devotion. As you lead your children with a combination of firm truth and tender kindness, you provide them with a mirror of God’s own Fatherhood. Rely on His strength in the long days and short years of raising a family for His glory.
Key Passages
"And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord."
"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."
"And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus."
"For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him."
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"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
"Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward."
"Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged."
"He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes."
"And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children."
"As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth."
"¶ My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:"
"I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth."
"Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying."
"Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him."
"The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame."
"Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul."
"Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right."
"Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord."
"One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;"
"Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him."
"If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?"
"My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck."
"And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 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. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates."
"Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die."
"¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee."
"Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us."
"And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men."
"And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day."
"And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them."
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