Parents
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Parents’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 97–120 of 198 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.
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Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
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Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
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Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
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Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.
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Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.
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The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
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Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
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Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:
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Isaiah 38:19 OT
The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.
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Isaiah 49:15 OT
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
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Isaiah 66:13 OT
As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”
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“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”
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Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”
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Joel 1:3 OT
Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.
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Malachi 4:6 OT
He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
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He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.
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“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he? If you then, being…
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Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
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You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
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As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
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one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
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(but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?)