Scriptures about parents, raising children, and relationships between children and parents.
11 Scripture Passages · Father’s Blessing Bible
Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother, [so that it may go well with you and] so that your days may be prolonged in the land that the Lord your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 6:6–7
6 And let these words that I command you today be in your heart [and in your soul]; 7 impress them upon your children and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you rise;
Proverbs 1:8–9
8 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching; 9 for they are a graceful wreath on your head and ornaments around your neck.
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 23:22–25
22 Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. 23 Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. 24 The father of a righteous child has great joy; he who fathers a wise son rejoices in him. 25 May your father and mother rejoice; may she who gave you birth be joyful.
Matthew 15:4–6
4 For God said, “Honor your father and mother,” and, “Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.” 5 But you say that if anyone declares to his father or mother, “Whatever support you might have received from me is a gift devoted to God,” 6 he is not to honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
Luke 2:51
And He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them. And His mother kept all these words in her heart.
Ephesians 6:1–4
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise, 3 “so that it may go well with you and you may live long on the earth.” 4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Colossians 3:20–21
20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. 21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
1 Timothy 5:4
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness toward their own household and to repay their parents, for this is pleasing to God.
1 Timothy 5:8
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
