Bible Verses About Parents

Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.

For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth: and as a father in the son he pleaseth himself.

A wise son maketh the father glad: but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.

Hand in hand the evil man shall not be innocent: but the seed of the just shall be saved.

The good man leaveth heirs, sons, and grandsons: and the substance of the sinner is kept for the just.

He that spareth the rod, hateth his son: but he that loveth him, correcteth him betimes.

A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.

Chastise thy son, despair not: but to the killing of him set not thy soul.

It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.

Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.

Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart joyful, that thou mayst give an answer to him that reproacheth.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but the child that is left to his own will, bringeth his mother to shame.

Instruct thy son and he shall refresh thee, and shall give delight to thy soul.

The words of king Lamuel. The vision wherewith his mother instructed him.

Her children rose up, and called her blessed: her husband, and he praised her.

Thou shalt not keep company with them, even in burial: for thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people: the seed of the wicked shall not be named for ever.

The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as I do this day: the father shall make the truth known to the children.

Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.

My elect shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth in trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their posterity with them.

As one whom the mother caresseth, so will I comfort you, and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

But they have gone after the perverseness of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them.

At that time, saith the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

Leave thy fatherless children: I will make them live: and thy widows shall hope in me.