Parents Responsibilities

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction 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, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

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

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

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

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

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

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

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

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; — read the full passage →

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

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 chasten him, will not listen to them; — read the full passage →

He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, 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.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

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

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: — read the full passage →

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; — read the full passage →

Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and Christ Jesus our hope; — read the full passage →

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

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”

and 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 up.

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. — read the full passage →

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. — read the full passage →

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

For each man will bear his own burden.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

The soul who sins, he 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 on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — read the full passage →

and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. — read the full passage →

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting 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, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

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

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

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, — read the full passage →

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

“‘You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,