Question
I am looking for passages addressing the love of parents for their children, especially in setting good examples for the children to follow. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Answer
Copied below is an outline from the Online Bible:
PARENTS — THEIR DUTY TO THEIR CHILDREN IS:
a) To love them –>
Titus 2:4 4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
b) To bring them to Christ –>
Matt 19:13-14 13 Then little children were brought to Him that He might put His hands on them and pray, but the disciples rebuked them. 14 But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”
c) To train them up for God –>
Prov 22:6 6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Eph 6:4 4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
d) To instruct them in God’s word –>
Deut 4:9 9 “Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And teach them to your children and your grandchildren,
Deut 11:19 19 “You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Isa 38:19 19 The living, the living man, he shall praise You, as I do this day; the father shall make known Your truth to the children.
e) To tell them of God’s judgments –>
Joel 1:3 3 Tell your children about it, let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
f) To tell them of the miraculous works of God –>
Exod 10:2 2 “and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and your son’s son the mighty things I have done in Egypt, and My signs which I have done among them, that you may know that I am the LORD.”
Ps 78:4 4 We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.
g) To command them to obey God –>
Deut 32:46 46 and He said to them: “Set your hearts on all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your children to be careful to observe– all the words of this law.
1 Chr 28:9 9 “As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever.
h) To bless them –>
Gen 48:15-16 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said: “God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day, 16 The Angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; let my name be named upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”
Heb 11:20 20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
i) To pity them –>
Ps 103:13 13 As a father pities his children, so the LORD pities those who fear Him.
j) To provide for them –>
Job 42:15 15 In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
2 Cor 12:14 14 Now for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be burdensome to you; for I do not seek yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
1 Tim 5:8 8 But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
k) To rule them –>
1 Tim 3:4 4 one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence
1 Tim 3:12 12 Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
l) To correct them –>
Prov 13:24 24 He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly.
Prov 19:18 18 Chasten your son while there is hope, and do not set your heart on his destruction.
Prov 23:13 13 Do not withhold correction from a child, for if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.
Prov 29:17 17 Correct your son, and he will give you rest; yes, he will give delight to your soul.
Heb 12:7 7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?
m) Not to provoke them –>
Eph 6:4 4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
Col 3:21 21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
n) Not to make unholy connections for them –>
Gen 24:1-4 1 Now Abraham was old, well advanced in age; and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. 2 So Abraham said to the oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please, put your hand under my thigh, 3 “and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell; 4 “but you shall go to my country and to my family, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
Gen 28:1-2 1 Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him: “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan. 2 “Arise, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.
By David Baize
