The King James Version Bible

Bible Verses About Parents Responsibilities

  • And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
  • Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
  • But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
  • Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
  • The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
  • Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
  • Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
  • Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
  • But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
  • But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
  • Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
  • Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
  • Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
  • Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children ...
  • Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and ...
  • Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall ...
  • And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he ...
  • Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.