12 Bible Verses About Parenting

Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not leave it.

Keep these words that I am commanding you today close to your heart. Teach them carefully to your children, and speak of them as you sit in your house and as you go on your way, as you lie down and as you rise.

Children are a gift handed down from the LORD; the fruit of the womb is a reward.

Discipline your son, and he will give you peace of mind; he will bring delight to your heart.

Whoever holds back the rod hates their son, but the one who loves him is quick to discipline him.

Foolishness is tied fast to a child’s heart, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.

We will not conceal them from their children; we will pass on to those who come after us the deeds for which the LORD is praised, his strength, and the marvels he has worked. He laid down a solemn charge in Jacob and set up instruction in Israel; he ordered our forebears to teach these to their children, so that those born later, children not yet born, would know them, and would grow up and tell them to their own children,

Discipline your son while there is still hope; do not make yourself responsible for his death.

and how from infancy you have known the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Even the young show who they are by what they do, whether their conduct is pure and right.

Fathers, do not keep provoking your children, or they will lose heart.