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Bible Verses about “parent child relationship”

The Bible contains 46 verses about parent child relationship across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

Ephesians 6:4
1043 votes

“You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

Proverbs 22:6
1017 votes

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

Ephesians 6:12
746 votes

“For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

James 1:19
615 votes

“So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;”

Ephesians 6:1
573 votes

“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.”

Ephesians 6:11
523 votes

“Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.”

Exodus 20:12
517 votes

“"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.”

Ephesians 6:2
517 votes

“"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:”

Ephesians 6:3
461 votes

“"that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."”

Ephesians 6:13
458 votes

“Therefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.”

Ephesians 6:17
456 votes

“And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;”

Ephesians 6:10
448 votes

“Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.”

Ephesians 6:18
441 votes

“with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:”

Ephesians 6:15
440 votes

“and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace;”

Ephesians 6:16
429 votes

“above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.”

Ephesians 6:14
426 votes

“Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,”

Colossians 3:21
347 votes

“Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.”

Proverbs 13:24
277 votes

“One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.”

Ephesians 6:7
198 votes

“with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;”

Proverbs 29:15
193 votes

“The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.”

Proverbs 1:8
192 votes

“My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:”

Ephesians 6:9
189 votes

“You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.”

Ephesians 6:19
189 votes

“on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,”

Ephesians 6:8
186 votes

“knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.”

Ephesians 6:6
181 votes

“not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;”

Ephesians 6:5
180 votes

“Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;”

Ephesians 6:20
180 votes

“for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.”

Hebrews 12:11
179 votes

“All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.”

Proverbs 23:13
172 votes

“Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.”

Philippians 2:14
157 votes

“Do all things without murmurings and disputes,”

Proverbs 23:14
153 votes

“Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.”

Proverbs 22:15
134 votes

“Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.”

Ephesians 6:23
133 votes

“Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Ephesians 6:24
133 votes

“Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.”

Ephesians 6:21
131 votes

“But that you also may know my affairs, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things;”

Ephesians 6:22
131 votes

“whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts.”

Proverbs 1:9
124 votes

“for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.”

Hebrews 12:8
119 votes

“But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.”

Hebrews 12:7
81 votes

“It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?”

Deuteronomy 21:20
75 votes

“and they shall tell the elders of his city, "This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard."”

Deuteronomy 21:18
67 votes

“If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;”

Hebrews 12:9
66 votes

“Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?”

Hebrews 12:10
66 votes

“For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.”

Deuteronomy 21:19
65 votes

“then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;”

Deuteronomy 21:21
65 votes

“All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.”

Proverbs 23:25
19 votes

“Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!”

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