100 Bible Verses about Parental Blessing

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 1,674 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 1,610 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 1,234 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 29:17 ESV / 1,175 helpful votes

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

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 1,150 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 1,043 helpful votes

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 1,025 helpful votes

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

3 John 1:4 ESV / 1,022 helpful votes

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 977 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. 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.

Proverbs 1:8-9 ESV / 903 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 896 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 813 helpful votes

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

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 780 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Deuteronomy 5:29 ESV / 731 helpful votes

Oh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!

Isaiah 54:13 ESV / 730 helpful votes

All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.

John 16:21 ESV / 689 helpful votes

When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 683 helpful votes

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 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.

Matthew 19:14 ESV / 682 helpful votes

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 682 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 678 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 644 helpful votes

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 630 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 623 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Hebrews 12:7 ESV / 617 helpful votes

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?

Deuteronomy 6:6-9 ESV / 611 helpful votes

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 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. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 599 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 598 helpful votes

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.

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 585 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

Titus 2:2 ESV / 574 helpful votes

Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.

Deuteronomy 6:6 ESV / 572 helpful votes

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.

Proverbs 10:1 ESV / 565 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Psalm 113:9 ESV / 565 helpful votes

He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 556 helpful votes

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.

Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 545 helpful votes

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.

1 Timothy 3:4 ESV / 541 helpful votes

He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,

Numbers 6:24-26 ESV / 518 helpful votes

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

Matthew 5:2 ESV / 497 helpful votes

And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:

Mark 10:15-16 ESV / 494 helpful votes

Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

Proverbs 31:28 ESV / 492 helpful votes

Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:

John 3:16-17 ESV / 474 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Romans 8:14 ESV / 458 helpful votes

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Proverbs 23:13 ESV / 453 helpful votes

Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 445 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Hebrews 12:6 ESV / 442 helpful votes

For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

3 John 1:2 ESV / 439 helpful votes

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.

Psalm 139:15-16 ESV / 438 helpful votes

My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 427 helpful votes

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

John 3:16 ESV / 427 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 424 helpful votes

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 12:14 ESV / 397 helpful votes

Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Matthew 18:1-3 ESV / 396 helpful votes

At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Malachi 3:10 ESV / 393 helpful votes

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

Titus 2:4 ESV / 388 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 17:7-8 ESV / 382 helpful votes

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

Deuteronomy 11:19 ESV / 376 helpful votes

You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

James 1:17 ESV / 369 helpful votes

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Matthew 5:4 ESV / 369 helpful votes

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

2 Corinthians 9:8 ESV / 367 helpful votes

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.

Psalm 67:7 ESV / 358 helpful votes

God shall bless us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 349 helpful votes

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

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 345 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Proverbs 23:24 ESV / 323 helpful votes

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 309 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

Galatians 5:2 ESV / 307 helpful votes

Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 303 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Deuteronomy 4:9 ESV / 299 helpful votes

“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children—

Philippians 4:2 ESV / 292 helpful votes

I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord.

1 Samuel 1:27 ESV / 292 helpful votes

For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him.

Psalm 34:8 ESV / 284 helpful votes

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!

1 Peter 5:2-3 ESV / 282 helpful votes

Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.

Ezekiel 34:26 ESV / 268 helpful votes

And I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.

Matthew 18:10 ESV / 267 helpful votes

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Proverbs 10:22 ESV / 266 helpful votes

The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

Psalm 33:12 ESV / 263 helpful votes

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!

Exodus 23:25 ESV / 257 helpful votes

You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

Proverbs 19:18 ESV / 252 helpful votes

Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.

Luke 2:40 ESV / 251 helpful votes

And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon him.

Psalm 103:13 ESV / 245 helpful votes

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

2 Timothy 3:14-15 ESV / 232 helpful votes

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Isaiah 38:19 ESV / 232 helpful votes

The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness.

1 Peter 3:2 ESV / 228 helpful votes

When they see your respectful and pure conduct.

James 3:10-12 ESV / 228 helpful votes

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.

Psalm 34:1-2 ESV / 228 helpful votes

Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad.

Exodus 23:2 ESV / 226 helpful votes

You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 224 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 194 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Joel 1:3 ESV / 189 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 184 helpful votes

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

Genesis 18:19 ESV / 178 helpful votes

For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”

1 Timothy 5:4 ESV / 173 helpful votes

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

Genesis 33:5 ESV / 169 helpful votes

And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 168 helpful votes

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.

Mark 10:13-16 ESV / 155 helpful votes

And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

2 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 147 helpful votes

I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.

Romans 11:2 ESV / 137 helpful votes

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 136 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ...

Malachi 4:6 ESV / 132 helpful votes

And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”

Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 127 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 106 helpful votes

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

Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV / 105 helpful votes

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

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