Role of Parents
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 - Colossians 3:21
Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.
Read it in context - Deuteronomy 6:6–7
6These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. 7And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Read it in context - Deuteronomy 21:15–17
15If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son, 16when that man assigns his inheritance to his sons he must not appoint the son of the beloved wife as the firstborn over the son of the unloved wife. 17Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of his unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For that son is the firstfruits of his father’s strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.
Read it in context - Genesis 2:24
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Read it in context - 2 Corinthians 12:14
See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
Read it in context - Ephesians 6:1–3
1Children, 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“that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”
Read it in context - Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
Read it in context - 1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
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