Top 25 Bible Verses About Parents Responsibilities (ESV)

4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

6   Train up a child in the way he should go;
    even when he is old he will not depart from it.

21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

8 But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

15   The rod and reproof give wisdom,
    but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

24   Whoever spares the rod hates his son,
    but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

13   Do not withhold discipline from a child;
    if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
14   If you strike him with the rod,
    you will save his soul from Sheol.

6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

17   Discipline your son, and he will give you rest;
    he will give delight to your heart.

15   Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
    but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

3   Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,
    the fruit of the womb a reward.
4   Like arrows in the hand of a warrior
    are the children of one’s youth.
5   Blessed is the man
    who fills his quiver with them!
  He shall not be put to shame
    when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

22   Listen to your father who gave you life,
    and do not despise your mother when she is old.

24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

3   Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,
    the fruit of the womb a reward.

4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

48 But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.

5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?

  “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
    nor be weary when reproved by him.
6   For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
    and chastises every son whom he receives.”

7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. 11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

5:1 Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

18 “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, 19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, 20 and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ 21 Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.