Parents Responsibilities

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

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

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. — read the full passage →

Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: — read the full passage →

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; — read the full passage →

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: — read the full passage →

And he said, A certain man had two sons: — read the full passage →

For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. — read the full passage →

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;

But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) — read the full passage →

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: — read the full passage →

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: — read the full passage →

Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: — read the full passage →

Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope; — read the full passage →

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; — read the full passage →

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: — read the full passage →

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: — read the full passage →

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

For every man shall bear his own burden.

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: — read the full passage →

And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the Lord.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.

This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. — read the full passage →

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly. — read the full passage →

Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; — read the full passage →

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.

So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: