10 Bible Verses on Parenting
Sharing these 10 Bible Verses on Parenting that serve us a quick guide for wisdom in parenting:
1. “Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.” – Proverbs 1:8-9
2. “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” – Proverbs 22:6
3. “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” – Ephesians 6:4
4. “Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.” – Colossians 3:21
5. “Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.” – Proverbs 13:24
6. “Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.” – Proverbs 19:18
7. “Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.” – Proverbs 29:17
8. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” – Ephesians 6:1-3
9. “And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”- Deuteronomy 6:6-9 ESV
10. “Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity..” Titus 2:7 ESV
“A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.” – Billy Graham