Bible Verses About Parents

Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.

And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”

Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;

Then the little children were brought to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them and pray for them. And the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them! For the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

and pleaded with Him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Please come and place Your hands on her, so that she will be healed and live.”

Then she went out and asked her mother, “What should I request?” And her mother answered, “The head of John the Baptist.”

What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?

Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

So once again He came to Cana in Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.

“Sir,” the official said, “come down before my child dies.”

See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.

For you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children—

An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.

For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?

A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.

If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.