This is a hand-curated and ranked list of the most relevant Bible verses about Role Of Parents (ESV). Verses are ranked by number of votes.
4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
6 Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.
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.
15 “If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved, 16 then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn, 17 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
14 Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
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.”
20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
3 But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
24 Whoever spares the rod hates his son,
but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
15 The rod and reproof give wisdom,
but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
17 Discipline your son, and he will give you rest;
he will give delight to your heart.
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.
6 And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”
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.
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.
22 Listen to your father who gave you life,
and do not despise your mother when she is old.
12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
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.
18 Discipline your son, for there is hope;
do not set your heart on putting him to death.