Bible Verses About Parent and Child Relationships

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

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

For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

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

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

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

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

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

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

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

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

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: