20 Bible Verses about

Parenting in the Family

Psalm 34:11 BSB

Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Psalm 78:5 BSB

For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,

Deuteronomy 11:19 BSB

Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Deuteronomy 6:7 BSB

And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Acts 21:21 BSB

But they are under the impression that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or observe our customs.

Deuteronomy 4:9 BSB

Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.

Deuteronomy 4:10 BSB

The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”

Amos 3:1 BSB

Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:

Genesis 30:3 BSB

Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”

Jeremiah 3:14 BSB

“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.

1 Timothy 5:4 BSB

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

Genesis 16:2 BSB

So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

1 Timothy 3:12 BSB

A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.

1 Timothy 3:4 BSB

An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.

Proverbs 22:6 BSB

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

Ephesians 6:4 BSB

Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Colossians 3:21 BSB

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.

Matthew 10:21 BSB

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

Luke 14:26 BSB

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

Matthew 19:29 BSB

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

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