What Does the Bible Say About Responsible Parenting?

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 12:7 ESV / 2 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?

Hebrews 12:5-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” 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? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? ...

2 Corinthians 7:8-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it—though I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while. As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter. So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one who did the wrong, nor for the sake of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your earnestness for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God. ...

2 Corinthians 2:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.

1 Corinthians 5:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. ...

1 Corinthians 4:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?

Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 2 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.

1 Kings 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, “Why have you done thus and so?” He was also a very handsome man, and he was born next after Absalom.

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 2 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.

Leviticus 20:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.

Exodus 21:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.

18 Bible Verses about Responsible Parenting

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 12:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 12:5-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 7:8-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 2:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 4:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Kings 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 21:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 12:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 12:5-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 7:8-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 2:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 4:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Kings 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 21:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes