Bible Verses About Parents

Our fathers have sinned--they are not, We their iniquities have borne.

Lo, every one using a simile, Doth use a simile concerning thee, saying: As the mother--her daughter!

Thy mother's daughter thou art , Loathing her husband and her sons, And thy sisters' sister thou art , Who loathed their husbands and their sons, Your mother is a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

And I say to their sons in the wilderness: In the statutes of your fathers ye walk not, And their judgments ye do not observe, And with their idols ye are not defiled.

Concerning it to your sons talk ye, And your sons to their sons, And their sons to another generation.

Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, And for four, I do not reserve it, Because of their loathing the law of Jehovah, And His statutes they have not kept, And their lies do cause them to err, After which their fathers did walk,

And he hath turned back the heart of fathers to sons, And the heart of sons to their fathers, Before I come and have utterly smitten the land!

`He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

Then were brought near to him children that he might put hands on them and pray, and the disciples rebuked them.

But Jesus said, `Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'

and he was calling upon him much, saying--`My little daughter is at the last extremity--that having come, thou mayest lay on her thy hands, so that she may be saved, and she shall live;'

And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, `What shall I ask for myself?' and she said, `The head of John the Baptist;'

`And of which of you--the father--if the son shall ask a loaf, a stone will he present to him? and if a fish, will he instead of a fish, a serpent present to him?

and if he may ask an egg, will he present to him a scorpion?

If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'

Jesus came, therefore, again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine, and there was a certain courtier, whose son was ailing in Capernaum,

The courtier saith unto him, `Sir, come down before my child die;'

Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,

his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

(and if any one his own house how to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

Ministrants--let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.