authority over your children
What does the Bible say about authority over your children? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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20Children, obey your parents in all things. For this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
17Obey your leaders and be subject to them. For they watch over you, as if to render an account of your souls. So then, may they do this with joy, and not with grief. Otherwise, it would not be as helpful to you.
1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just. 2Honor your father and your mother. This is the first commandment with a promise: 3so that it may be well with you, and so that you may have a long life upon the earth.
2Honor your father and your mother. This is the first commandment with a promise:
19Teach your sons to meditate on them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk along the way, and when you lie down or rise up.
1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.
18Teach your son; do not despair. But do not set your soul toward putting him to death.
15Whoever strikes his father or mother shall die a death.
12Honor your father and your mother, so that you may have a long life upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.
21Fathers, do not provoke your children to indignation, lest they lose heart.
15Foolishness has been bound to the heart of a child, and a rod of discipline shall cause it to flee.
5For if a man does not know how to lead his own house, how will he take care of the Church of God?
24He who spares the rod hates his son. But he who loves him urgently instructs him.
14Insist on these things, testifying before the Lord. Do not be contentious about words, for this is useful for nothing but the subversion of listeners.
4‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘Whoever will have cursed father or mother shall die a death.’