A Wise Child -Proverbs 23:22 “Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.”
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What does God say through out the Bible about children who obey (means listen) to their parents?
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Ephesians 6:1-4 >children duty to obey parents
Colossians 3:20-24 >children duty to obey parents
Luke 2:48-52 >Jesus obeyed his parents
Luke 18:28-30 > Jesus promise about parents
John 9:3-5 // Did the parents sin?
Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God
might be displayed in him. (4) We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day;
night is coming, when no one can work. (5) As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the
world.”
2 Corinthians 12:13-15 // Parents obligated to save for their children
For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not
burden you? Forgive me this wrong! (14) Here for the third time I am ready to come to you.
And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not
obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. (15) I will most gladly
spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
Proverbs 23:13-14 //Don’t withhold discipline
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you
strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.
Colossians 3:20 // Children obey your parents
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
1 Timothy 5:3-4 // Children duty to care for aged parents
Honor widows who are truly widows. (4) But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let
them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their
parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 // Disobedient children a sign of the last days
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. (2) For people
will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents,
ungrateful, unholy, (3) heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not
loving good, (4) treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than
lovers of God, (5) having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such
people.
Proverbs 1:8-9
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, (9) for they
are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck. 2/5
Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of
the valley and eaten by the vultures.
Proverbs 7:1-3
My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; (2) keep my
commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; (3) bind them on your
fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Leviticus 19:3
Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I
am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the
voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, (19) then his
father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the
gate of the place where he lives, (20) and they shall say to 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.’ (21)
Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil
from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Exodus 20:12
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD
your God is giving you.
Exodus 21:15-17
“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death. (16) “Whoever steals a man
and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death. (17) “Whoever
curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.
Titus 2:3-5
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine.
They are to teach what is good, (4) and so train the young women to love their husbands
and children, (5) to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their
own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Teach your children God’s Word “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. (5)
You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your
might. (6) And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. (7) You shall
teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house,
and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. (8) You shall
bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. (9) You
shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Deuteronomy 4:9-10
“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have
seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to
your children and your children’s children– (10) how on the day that you stood before the
LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let
them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the
earth, and that they may teach their children so.’
Deuteronomy 11:19
You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house,
and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
Joel 1:2-3
Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your
days, or in the days of your fathers? (3) Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their
children, and their children to another generation.
Psalms 78:2-8
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old, (3) things that we
have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. (4) We will not hide them from their
children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might,
and the wonders that he has done. (5) He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a
law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, (6) that the next
generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their
children, (7) so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but
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keep his commandments; (8) and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and
rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not
faithful to God.
More Scriptures about Parenting and Children
Psalms 103:13 // God is the Father of Compassion
As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who
fear him.
Proverbs 10:1 // foolish kids make mother sad
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to
his mother.
Psalms 112:1-2 // God will bless the children
Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his
commandments! (2) His offspring will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright
will be blessed.