The best Bible verses for parenting (NASB) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for parenting (NASB), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"'If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple."Luke 14:26
"'If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple."Luke 14:26
"Jesus said, 'Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel's sake,"Mark 10:29
"'And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name's sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life."Matthew 19:29
"All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness."Hebrews 12:11
"'Know this day that I [am] not [speaking] with your sons who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of the LORD your God-- His greatness, His mighty hand and His outstretched arm,"Deuteronomy 11:2
"But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons."Hebrews 12:8
"For this is a rebellious people, false sons, Sons who refuse to listen To the instruction of the LORD;"Isaiah 30:9
"It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom [his] father does not discipline?"Hebrews 12:7
"Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?"Hebrews 12:9
"For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He [disciplines us] for [our] good, so that we may share His holiness."Hebrews 12:10
"But we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing [mother] tenderly cares for her own children."1 Thessalonians 2:7
"but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life."Mark 10:30
"He makes the barren woman abide in the house [As] a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!"Psalms 113:9
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 (NASB) are Luke 14:26, Mark 10:29, Matthew 19:29. 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 (NASB) 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 (NASB), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.