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15 Bible Verses About Parenting Responsibilities

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  • Deuteronomy 6:6-7 tells parents to keep God’s commands on their own hearts and to talk about them at home, on the road, at bedtime and on rising.
  • Psalm 78:5-6 describes the works of God being passed from ancestors to children, to the next generation, and to children yet to be born.
  • Proverbs 13:24 calls sparing the rod a form of hating a child, and Proverbs 19:18 ties discipline to hope.
  • Ephesians 6:4 and Colossians 3:21 follow the command for children to obey with a command that fathers not exasperate or embitter their children.
  • 2 Timothy 1:5 traces Timothy’s faith to his grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice; Acts 16:1 says his father was a Greek.

The Bible’s direct instructions for raising children cover four things: teaching them about God, disciplining them, not provoking them, and caring for them. Deuteronomy 6:6-7 carries the first, Proverbs 13:24 and 19:18 the second, and Ephesians 6:4 and Colossians 3:21 the third. Several passages speak to parents by comparison. Jesus reasons from the gifts parents give their children to the gifts God gives (Matthew 7:11), Hebrews 12:9-10 reasons from a father’s discipline to God’s, and Paul describes his care for…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Strong’s Hebrew 2596, חָנַך (chanak): to train, dedicate, inaugurate. biblehub.com/hebrew/2596

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