Quotes about Parenting
A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
- Proverbs 15:20
A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy.
- Proverbs 17:21
A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
- Proverbs 17:25
Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.
- Proverbs 19:18
He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
- Proverbs 19:26
Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
- Proverbs 20:20
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
- Proverbs 22:6
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
- Proverbs 22:15
Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
- Proverbs 23:13
Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.
- Proverbs 23:14
My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice.
- Proverbs 23:15
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
- Proverbs 23:22