Parenting Bible Verses

PROVERBS 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. ...

EPHESIANS 6:4

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. ...

COLOSSIANS 3:21

Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged. ...

DEUTERONOMY 6:6-7

Deuteronomy 6:6: And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
Deuteronomy 6:7: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
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PSALMS 127:3

Lo, children [are] an heritage of the LORD: [and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward. ...

PROVERBS 29:17

Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul. ...

PROVERBS 13:24

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. ...

PROVERBS 19:18

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. ...

PROVERBS 23:13-14

Proverbs 23:13: Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Proverbs 23:14: Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
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PROVERBS 1:8-9

Proverbs 1:8: My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs 1:9: For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
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PROVERBS 3:11-12

Proverbs 3:11: # My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
Proverbs 3:12: For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son [in whom] he delighteth.
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HEBREWS 12:7-11

Hebrews 12:7: If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
Hebrews 12:8: But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Hebrews 12:9: Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
Hebrews 12:10: For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness.
Hebrews 12:11: Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
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