Parent and Child Relationships
10 passages
- Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Read it in context - Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Read it in context - Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Read it in context - Colossians 3:21
Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.
Read it in context - Philippians 2:14
Do everything without complaining or arguing,
Read it in context - Proverbs 13:24
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
Read it in context - Proverbs 29:15
A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
Read it in context - Proverbs 1:8–9
8Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother. 9For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.
Read it in context - Proverbs 23:13–14
13Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die. 14Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.
Read it in context - James 1:19
My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
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