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136 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
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- Bad - Exemplified: Athaliah
- Bad - Exemplified: Eli
- Bad - Exemplified: Herodias
- Bad - Exemplified: Manasseh
- Bad - Exemplified: Mother of Micah
- Bad - Exemplified: Saul
- Covenant, Benefits of, Entailed on Children
- Curses Entailed
- Good - Exemplified: Abraham
- Good - Exemplified: David
- Good - Exemplified: Hannah
- Good - Exemplified: Jacob
- Good - Exemplified: Job
- Good - Exemplified: Joseph
- Good - Exemplified: Lois and Eunice
- Good - Exemplified: Manoah
- Good - Exemplified: Mother of Lemuel
- Good - Exemplified: Mother of Moses
- Good - Exemplified: Nobleman
- Good - Exemplified: Shunammite
- Indulgent: David
- Indulgent: Eli
- Involved in Children's Wickedness
- Negligence of, Sorely Punished
- Parental Affection Exemplified by David
- Parental Affection Exemplified by Father of the Demoniac
- Parental Affection Exemplified by Hagar
- Parental Affection Exemplified by Hannah
- Parental Affection Exemplified by Isaac
- Parental Affection Exemplified by Isaac and Rebekah
- Parental Affection Exemplified by Jacob
- Parental Affection Exemplified by Jairus
- Parental Affection Exemplified by Laban
- Parental Affection Exemplified by Mary
- Parental Affection Exemplified by Moses' Mother
- Parental Affection Exemplified by Naomi
- Parental Affection Exemplified by Rebekah's Mother
- Parental Affection Exemplified by Rizpah
- Parental Affection Exemplified by The Nobleman
- Parental Affection Exemplified by The True Mother of the Infant Brought to Solomon
- Partiality of Isaac for Esau
- Partiality of Jacob for Benjamin
- Partiality of Jacob for Joseph
- Partiality of Rebekah for Jacob
- Paternal Blessings of Abraham
- Paternal Blessings of Isaac
- Paternal Blessings of Jacob
- Paternal Blessings of Noah
- Paternal Reproaches
- Prayers on Behalf of Children of David
- Prayers on Behalf of Children of Hannah
- Prayers on Behalf of Children of Job
- Receive Their Children from God
- should Pray for Their Children for Their Spiritual Welfare
- should Pray for Their Children: when in Sickness
- should Pray for Their Children: when in Temptation
- Sins of, Visited on Their Children
- Their Duty to Their Children Is: Not to Make Unholy Connections for Them
- Their Duty to Their Children Is: Not to Provoke Them
- Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Bless Them
- Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Bring Them to Christ
- Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Command Them to Obey God
- Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Correct Them
- Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Instruct Them in God's Word
- Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Love Them
- Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Pity Them
- Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Provide for Them
- Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Rule Them
- Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Tell Them of God's Judgments
- Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Tell Them of the Miraculous Works of God
- Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Train Them up for God
- Unclassified Scriptures Relating To
- when Faithful are Blessed by Their Children
- when Faithful: Leave a Blessing to Their Children
- when Wicked: Instruct Their Children in Evil
- when Wicked: Set a Bad Example to Their Children
- Wicked Children, a Cause of Grief To
Bad - Exemplified: Athaliah
- 2 Chronicles 22:3 Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness.
Bad - Exemplified: Eli
- 1 Samuel 3:13 I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.
Bad - Exemplified: Herodias
- Mark 6:24 Then she went out and asked her mother, “What should I request?” And her mother answered, “The head of John the Baptist.”
Bad - Exemplified: Manasseh
- 2 Chronicles 33:6 He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
Bad - Exemplified: Mother of Micah
- Judges 17:3 And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”
Bad - Exemplified: Saul
- 1 Samuel 20:33 Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.
Covenant, Benefits of, Entailed on Children
- Genesis 6:18 But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark — you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
- Exodus 20:6 but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
- Psalm 103:17 But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children —
Curses Entailed
- Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
- Leviticus 20:5 then I will set My face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech.
- Isaiah 14:20 You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.
- Jeremiah 9:14 Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”
- Lamentations 5:7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
- Ezekiel 16:44 Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
- Ezekiel 45:1 “When you divide the land by lot as an inheritance, you are to set aside a portion for the LORD, a holy portion of the land 25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits wide. This entire tract of land will be holy.
Good - Exemplified: Abraham
- Genesis 18:19 For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
Good - Exemplified: David
- 2 Samuel 18:5 Now the king had commanded Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, “Treat the young man Absalom gently for my sake.” And all the people heard the king’s orders to each of the commanders regarding Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 18:33 The king was shaken and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”
Good - Exemplified: Hannah
- 1 Samuel 1:28 I now dedicate the boy to the LORD. For as long as he lives, he is dedicated to the LORD.” So they worshiped the LORD there.
Good - Exemplified: Jacob
- Genesis 44:20 And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
- Genesis 44:30 So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life,
Good - Exemplified: Job
- Job 1:5 And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in …
Good - Exemplified: Joseph
- Genesis 48:13–20 And Joseph took both of them— with Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand— and brought them close to him. …
Good - Exemplified: Lois and Eunice
- 2 Timothy 1:5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced is in you as well.
Good - Exemplified: Manoah
- Judges 13:8 Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”
Good - Exemplified: Mother of Lemuel
- Proverbs 31:1 These are the words of King Lemuel — the burden that his mother taught him:
Good - Exemplified: Mother of Moses
- Exodus 2:2–3 and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months. …
Good - Exemplified: Nobleman
- John 4:49 “Sir,” the official said, “come down before my child dies.”
Good - Exemplified: Shunammite
- 2 Kings 4:19–20 “My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.” …
Indulgent: David
- 1 Kings 1:6 (His father had never once reprimanded him by saying, “Why do you act this way?” Adonijah was also very handsome, born next after Absalom.)
Indulgent: Eli
- 1 Samuel 2:27–36 Then a man of God came to Eli and told him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Did I not clearly reveal Myself to your father’s house when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh’s house? …
- 1 Samuel 3:13–14 I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them. …
Involved in Children's Wickedness
- 1 Samuel 2:27–36 Then a man of God came to Eli and told him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Did I not clearly reveal Myself to your father’s house when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh’s house? …
- 1 Samuel 4:10–22 So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great — thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell. …
Negligence of, Sorely Punished
- 1 Samuel 3:13 I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.
Parental Affection Exemplified by David
- 2 Samuel 12:18–23 On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the …
- 2 Samuel 13:38–39 After Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, he stayed there three years. …
- 2 Samuel 14:1 Now Joab son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart longed for Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 14:33 So Joab went and told the king, and David summoned Absalom, who came to him and bowed facedown before him. Then the king kissed Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 18:5 Now the king had commanded Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, “Treat the young man Absalom gently for my sake.” And all the people heard the king’s orders to each of the commanders regarding Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 18:12–13 The man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels of silver were weighed out into my hands, I would not raise my hand against the son of the king. For we heard the king command you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom …
- 2 Samuel 18:33 The king was shaken and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”
- 2 Samuel 19:1–6 Then it was reported to Joab, “The king is weeping and mourning over Absalom.” …
Parental Affection Exemplified by Father of the Demoniac
- Mark 9:24 Immediately the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe; help my unbelief!”
Parental Affection Exemplified by Hagar
- Genesis 21:15–16 When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes. …
Parental Affection Exemplified by Hannah
- 1 Samuel 2:19 Each year his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.
Parental Affection Exemplified by Isaac
- Genesis 27:26–27 Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.” …
Parental Affection Exemplified by Isaac and Rebekah
- Genesis 25:28 Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Parental Affection Exemplified by Jacob
- Genesis 37:3–4 Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors. …
- Genesis 42:4 But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”
- Genesis 42:38 But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”
- Genesis 43:13–14 Take your brother as well, and return to the man at once. …
- Genesis 45:26–28 “Joseph is still alive,” they said, “and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!” But Jacob was stunned, for he did not believe them. …
- Genesis 48:10–11 Now Israel’s eyesight was poor because of old age; he could hardly see. Joseph brought his sons to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them. …
Parental Affection Exemplified by Jairus
- Mark 5:23 and pleaded with Him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Please come and place Your hands on her, so that she will be healed and live.”
Parental Affection Exemplified by Laban
- Genesis 31:26–28 Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war! …
Parental Affection Exemplified by Mary
- Matthew 12:46 While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, His mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to Him.
- Luke 2:48 When His parents saw Him, they were astonished. “Child, why have You done this to us?” His mother asked. “Your father and I have been anxiously searching for You.”
- John 2:5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”
- John 19:25 Near the cross of Jesus stood His mother and her sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene.
Parental Affection Exemplified by Moses' Mother
- Exodus 2:1 Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,
Parental Affection Exemplified by Naomi
- Ruth 1:8–9 Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me. …
Parental Affection Exemplified by Rebekah's Mother
- Genesis 24:55 But her brother and mother said, “Let the girl remain with us ten days or so. After that, she may go.”
Parental Affection Exemplified by Rizpah
- 2 Samuel 21:10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on …
Parental Affection Exemplified by The Nobleman
- John 4:49 “Sir,” the official said, “come down before my child dies.”
Parental Affection Exemplified by The True Mother of the Infant Brought to Solomon
- 1 Kings 3:22–28 “No,” said the other woman, “the living one is my son and the dead one is your son.” But the first woman insisted, “No, the dead one is yours and the living one is mine.” So they argued before the king. …
Partiality of Isaac for Esau
- Genesis 25:28 Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Partiality of Jacob for Benjamin
- Genesis 42:4 But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”
Partiality of Jacob for Joseph
- Genesis 33:2 He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
- Genesis 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.
- Genesis 48:22 And to you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”
Partiality of Rebekah for Jacob
- Genesis 25:28 Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
- Genesis 27:6–17 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau, …
Paternal Blessings of Abraham
- Genesis 17:18 And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!”
Paternal Blessings of Isaac
- Genesis 27:10–40 Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.” …
- Genesis 28:3–4 May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples. …
Paternal Blessings of Jacob
- Genesis 48:15–20 Then he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day, …
- Genesis 49:1–28 Then Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather around so that I can tell you what will happen to you in the days to come: …
Paternal Blessings of Noah
- Genesis 9:24–27 When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him, …
Paternal Reproaches
- Genesis 9:24–25 When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him, …
- Genesis 49:3–7 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power. …
Prayers on Behalf of Children of David
- 2 Samuel 7:25–29 And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house. Do as You have promised, …
- 1 Chronicles 17:16–27 Then King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far? …
- 2 Samuel 12:16 David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.
- 1 Chronicles 22:12 Above all, may the LORD give you insight and understanding when He puts you in command over Israel, so that you may keep the Law of the LORD your God.
- 1 Chronicles 29:19 And give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and carry out all Your commandments, decrees, and statutes, and to build Your palace for which I have made provision.”
Prayers on Behalf of Children of Hannah
- 1 Samuel 1:27 I prayed for this boy, and since the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him,
Prayers on Behalf of Children of Job
- Job 1:5 And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in …
Receive Their Children from God
- Genesis 33:5 When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the children God has graciously given your servant.”
- 1 Samuel 1:27 I prayed for this boy, and since the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him,
- Psalm 127:3 Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
should Pray for Their Children for Their Spiritual Welfare
- Genesis 17:18 And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!”
- 1 Chronicles 29:19 And give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and carry out all Your commandments, decrees, and statutes, and to build Your palace for which I have made provision.”
should Pray for Their Children: when in Sickness
- 2 Samuel 12:16 David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.
- Mark 5:23 and pleaded with Him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Please come and place Your hands on her, so that she will be healed and live.”
- John 4:46 So once again He came to Cana in Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.
- John 4:49 “Sir,” the official said, “come down before my child dies.”
should Pray for Their Children: when in Temptation
- Job 1:5 And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in …
Sins of, Visited on Their Children
- Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
- Isaiah 14:20 You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.
- Lamentations 5:7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
Their Duty to Their Children Is: Not to Make Unholy Connections for Them
- Genesis 24:1–4 By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way. …
- Genesis 28:1–2 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded. …
Their Duty to Their Children Is: Not to Provoke Them
- Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
- Colossians 3:21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.
Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Bless Them
- Genesis 48:15 Then he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
- Hebrews 11:20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.
Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Bring Them to Christ
- Matthew 19:13–14 Then little children were brought to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them and pray for them. And the disciples rebuked those who brought them. …
Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Command Them to Obey God
- Deuteronomy 32:46 he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.
- 1 Chronicles 28:9 As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by …
Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Correct Them
- Proverbs 13:24 He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
- Proverbs 19:18 Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.
- Proverbs 23:13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
- Proverbs 29:17 Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will bring delight to your soul.
- Hebrews 12:7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?
Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Instruct Them in God's Word
- Deuteronomy 4:9 Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
- Deuteronomy 11:19 Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Isaiah 38:19 The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Love Them
- Titus 2:4 In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,
Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Pity Them
- Psalm 103:13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Provide for Them
- Job 42:15 No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.
- 2 Corinthians 12:14 See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
- 1 Timothy 5:8 If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Rule Them
- 1 Timothy 3:4 An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.
- 1 Timothy 3:12 A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.
Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Tell Them of God's Judgments
- Joel 1:3 Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Tell Them of the Miraculous Works of God
- Exodus 10:2 and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians when I performed miraculous signs among them, so that all of you may know that I am the LORD.”
- Psalm 78:4 We will not hide them from their children but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might and the wonders He has performed.
Their Duty to Their Children Is: To Train Them up for God
- Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
- Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Unclassified Scriptures Relating To
- Genesis 18:19 For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
- Exodus 10:2 and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians when I performed miraculous signs among them, so that all of you may know that I am the LORD.”
- Exodus 12:26–27 When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’ …
- Exodus 13:8 And on that day you are to explain to your son, ‘This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
- Exodus 13:14 In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
- Exodus 20:10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work— neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.
- Exodus 21:17 Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.
- Leviticus 20:9 If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him.
- Leviticus 23:3 For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 4:9–10 Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren. …
- Deuteronomy 6:7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Deuteronomy 6:20–24 In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?” …
- Deuteronomy 11:18–21 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. …
- Deuteronomy 32:46 he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.
- Psalm 78:5–6 For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children, …
- Psalm 103:13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
- Proverbs 3:12 for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.
- Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
- Proverbs 13:24 He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
- Proverbs 19:18 Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.
- Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
- Proverbs 22:15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
- Proverbs 23:13–14 Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die. …
- Proverbs 27:11 Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, so that I can answer him who taunts me.
- Proverbs 29:15 A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
- Proverbs 29:17 Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will bring delight to your soul.
- Proverbs 31:28 Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband praises her as well:
- Isaiah 38:19 The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
- Isaiah 49:15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!
- Isaiah 66:13 As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”
- Jeremiah 31:1 “At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”
- Jeremiah 49:11 Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
- Lamentations 5:7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
- Joel 1:3 Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
- Malachi 4:6 And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”
- Matthew 10:37 Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
- Luke 11:11–13 What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? …
- 2 Corinthians 12:14 See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
- Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
- Colossians 3:21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:11 For you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children—
- 1 Timothy 3:4–5 An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity. …
- 1 Timothy 3:12 A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.
- 1 Timothy 5:8 If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
- Titus 1:6 An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.
- Titus 2:4 In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,
- Hebrews 12:7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?
when Faithful are Blessed by Their Children
- Proverbs 31:28 Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband praises her as well:
when Faithful: Leave a Blessing to Their Children
- Psalm 112:2 His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
- Proverbs 11:21 Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.
- Isaiah 65:23 They will not labor in vain or bear children doomed to disaster; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD — they and their descendants with them.
when Wicked: Instruct Their Children in Evil
- Jeremiah 9:14 Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”
- 1 Peter 1:18 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
when Wicked: Set a Bad Example to Their Children
- Ezekiel 20:18 In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
- Amos 2:4 This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.
Wicked Children, a Cause of Grief To
- Proverbs 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.
- Proverbs 17:25 A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.