Top 25 Bible Verses About Role Of Parents (NIV)

⁴ Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

⁶ Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

²¹ Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.

⁶ These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. ⁷ Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

¹⁵ If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love, ¹⁶ when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love. ¹⁷ He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his father's strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him.

²⁴ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

¹⁴ Now I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ² "Honor your father and mother"--which is the first commandment with a promise-- ³ "that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth."

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

²⁰ Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

³ Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

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

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

¹⁵ The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.

¹⁷ Discipline your son, and he will give you peace; he will bring delight to your soul.

¹³ Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die. ¹⁴ Punish him with the rod and save his soul from death.

⁶ He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse."

³ Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him. ⁴ Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth. ⁵ Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their enemies in the gate.

⁸ Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. ⁹ They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.

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

¹² "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

⁸ If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

⁴ Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children,

¹⁸ Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be a willing party to his death.

¹⁸ Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.