The best Bible verses for parenting (KJV) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for parenting (KJV), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby."Hebrews 12:11
"Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby."Hebrews 12:11
"And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,"Deuteronomy 11:2
"But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons."Hebrews 12:8
"That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:"Isaiah 30:9
"If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?"Hebrews 12:7
"Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?"Hebrews 12:9
"For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness."Hebrews 12:10
"A fool despiseth his father's 1 instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent."Proverbs 15:5
"But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life."Mark 10:30
"He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD. to"Psalms 113:9
"Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,"1 Timothy 1:9
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
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The most-cited Bible verses for parenting (KJV) are Hebrews 12:11, Psalms 127:3, Deuteronomy 11:2. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to parenting (KJV) across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for parenting (KJV), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.