Bible Verses About Parents

Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.

Behold every one that useth a common proverb, shall use this against thee, saying: As the mother was, so also is her daughter.

Thou art thy mother's daughter, that cast off her husband, and her children: and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who cast off their husbands, and their children: your mother was a Cethite, and your father an Amorrhite.

And I said to their children in the wilderness: Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, and observe not their judgments, nor be ye defiled with their idols:

Tell ye of this to your children, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.

Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Juda, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath cast away the law of the Lord, and hath not kept his commandments: for their idols have caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked.

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers: lest I come, and strike the earth with anathema.

He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.

Then were little children presented to him, that he should impose hands upon them and pray. And the disciples rebuked them.

But Jesus said to them: Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such.

And he besought him much, saying: My daughter is at the point of death, come, lay thy hand upon her, that she may be safe, and may live.

Who when she was gone out, said to her mother, What shall I ask? But her mother said: The head of John the Baptist.

And which of you, if he ask his father bread, will he give him a stone? Or a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

Or if he shall ask an egg, will he reach him a scorpion?

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the good Spirit to them that ask him?

He came again therefore into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain ruler, whose son was sick at Capharnaum.

The ruler saith to him: Lord, come down before that my son die.

Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you and I will not be burthensome unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours, but you. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger: but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord.

Fathers, provoke not your children to indignation, lest they be discouraged.

As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you (as a father doth his children),

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all chastity.

But if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?

Let deacons be the husbands of one wife: who rule well their children and their own houses.

But if any man have not care of his own and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.