25 Bible Verses About Being A Parent (ESV)

6   Train up a child in the way he should go;
    even when he is old he will not depart from it.

4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

3   Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,
    the fruit of the womb a reward.
4   Like arrows in the hand of a warrior
    are the children of one’s youth.
5   Blessed is the man
    who fills his quiver with them!
  He shall not be put to shame
    when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

15   The rod and reproof give wisdom,
    but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

24   Whoever spares the rod hates his son,
    but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

8   Hear, my son, your father’s instruction,
    and forsake not your mother’s teaching,
9   for they are a graceful garland for your head
    and pendants for your neck.

3   Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,
    the fruit of the womb a reward.

12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?

  “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
    nor be weary when reproved by him.
6   For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
    and chastises every son whom he receives.”

7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. 11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

22   Listen to your father who gave you life,
    and do not despise your mother when she is old.

4 For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’

17   Discipline your son, and he will give you rest;
    he will give delight to your heart.

18   Discipline your son, for there is hope;
    do not set your heart on putting him to death.

6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

13   Do not withhold discipline from a child;
    if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
14   If you strike him with the rod,
    you will save his soul from Sheol.

10:1 The proverbs of Solomon.

  A wise son makes a glad father,
    but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

8   Hear, my son, your father’s instruction,
    and forsake not your mother’s teaching,

2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

12 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 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. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

8 But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

11   My son, do not despise the LORD’s discipline
    or be weary of his reproof,
12   for the LORD reproves him whom he loves,
    as a father the son in whom he delights.