Bible Verses About Parents

Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist; we bear the weight of their guilt.

Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb against you, "Like mother, like daughter."

Yes, you are your mother's daughter, who despises her husband and children; you are the sister of your sisters, who despise their husbands and children; your mother was a Hitti and your father an Emori.

"'I said to their children in the desert, "Don't live by the laws of your fathers, observe their rulings or defile yourselves with their idols.

Tell your children about it, and have them tell it to theirs, and have them tell the next generation.

Here is what ADONAI says: "For Y'hudah's three crimes, no, four - I will not reverse it because they rejected ADONAI's Torah and haven't observed his laws, and their lies caused them to fall into error and live the way their ancestors did;

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers; otherwise I will come and strike the land with complete destruction." [Look, I will send to you Eliyahu the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible Day of ADONAI.]

Whoever loves his father or mother more than he loves me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than he loves me is not worthy of me.

Then children were brought to him so that he might lay his hands on them and pray for them, but the talmidim rebuked the people bringing them.

However, Yeshua said, "Let the children come to me, don't stop them, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these."

and pleaded desperately with him, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Please! Come and lay your hands on her, so that she will get well and live!"

So she went out and said to her mother, "What should I ask for?" She said, "The head of Yochanan the Immerser."

“Is there any father here who, if his son asked him for a fish, would instead of a fish give him a snake?

or if he asked for an egg would give him a scorpion?

So if you, even though you are bad, know how to give your children gifts that are good, how much more will the Father keep giving the Ruach HaKodesh from heaven to those who keep asking him!”

He went again to Kanah in the Galil, where he had turned the water into wine. An officer in the royal service was there; his son was ill in K’far-Nachum.

The officer said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

Look, I am ready this third time to come and visit you; and I will not be a burden to you; for it is not what you own that I want, but you! Children are not supposed to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Fathers, don’t irritate your children and make them resentful; instead, raise them with the Lord’s kind of discipline and guidance.

Fathers, don’t irritate your children and make them resentful, or they will become discouraged.

for you know that we treated each one of you the way a father treats his children —

He must manage his own household well, having children who obey him with all proper respect;

for if a man can’t manage his own household, how will he be able to care for God’s Messianic Community?

Let the shammashim each be faithful to his wife, managing his children and household well.

Moreover, anyone who does not provide for his own people, especially for his family, has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.