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Scripture Cards: Parenting

12 Bible verses about parenting to print, cut out and memorize. Choose the King James Version or the modern Berean Standard Bible.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:4 KJV

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6 KJV

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Colossians 3:21 KJV

Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

Proverbs 29:17 KJV

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Proverbs 13:24 KJV

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Proverbs 29:15 KJV

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Psalms 127:3 KJV

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

Proverbs 1:8-9 KJV

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

Deuteronomy 6:6-9 KJV

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

Proverbs 23:13 KJV

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Exodus 20:12 KJV

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:1-4 KJV

How to memorize these verses

  1. Read the card aloud three times, saying the reference before and after.
  2. Cover the second half and recite it; then the whole verse.
  3. Keep one card visible for a week and review the older ones on Sunday.
  4. Track your progress with the scripture memory tracker.