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20 Bible Verses About Parents’ Love

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Summary

  • Psalm 103:13 and Isaiah 66:13 describe God’s compassion as a father’s and his comfort as a mother’s.
  • Isaiah 49:15 grants that a nursing mother may forget her child and says God will not forget Zion.
  • Proverbs 3:11-12, quoted in Hebrews 12:5-6, ties the Lord’s discipline to his love “as a father the son he delights in.”
  • Ephesians 6:4 and Colossians 3:21 tell fathers not to exasperate or embitter their children.
  • 1 Timothy 5:4 calls caring for a widowed parent or grandparent repaying them, and Mark 7:10-12 applies the command to honor father and mother to money set aside as Corban.

The Bible uses a parent’s love to describe God’s love. Psalm 103:13 compares the Lord’s compassion to a father’s, Isaiah 66:13 his comfort to a mother’s, and Matthew 7:11 his gifts to a father’s. In Luke 15:20 a father runs to meet a son who had wasted his inheritance. Parents are told to impress God’s commands on their children (Deuteronomy 6:6-7) and not to exasperate them (Ephesians 6:4), and Titus 2:4 names love for children as something older women urge…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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