Parenting

Parenting is addressed in the Bible through instructions to parents. This page lists verses on teaching and training children, discipline, not provoking children, providing for a family, and God as a parent.

Teaching and training

• Deuteronomy 6:6-7
  ⁶And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: ⁷And 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.
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• Deuteronomy 4:9
  Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;
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• Deuteronomy 11:19
  And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
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• Proverbs 22:6
  Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
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Discipline

• Proverbs 13:24
  He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
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• Proverbs 19:18
  Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
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• Proverbs 22:15
  Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
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• Proverbs 29:15
  The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
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• Proverbs 29:17
  Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
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• Hebrews 12:7-11
  ⁷If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? ⁸But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. ⁹Furthermore 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? ¹⁰For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
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Not provoking children

• Ephesians 6:4
  And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
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• Colossians 3:21
  Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
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Providing for a family

• 1 Timothy 5:8
  But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
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• 2 Corinthians 12:14
  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.
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God compared to a parent

• Psalm 103:13
  Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
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• Isaiah 66:13
  As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
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• Matthew 7:9-11
  ⁹Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? ¹⁰Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? ¹¹If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
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See also

• Children
• Fathers
• Mothers

Notes

1. Verses are quoted in the translation chosen in the Translation menu at the top of the page. See Translations for sources and copyright notices.
2. Each reference links to the full chapter so the verse can be read in context.