Children need love, affection, discipline and guidance from their parents. This is shown through teaching, training, discipline, the meeting of material needs and the provision of a personal example of faith.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7

Teaching children

See also

Exodus 10:2; 12:26-27; 13:14-15
Deuteronomy 4:9; 6:20-21; 11:19
Proverbs 1:8
Isaiah 38:19
Joel 1:3
Proverbs 22:6

Training children

Ephesians 6:4

See also

Deuteronomy 31:12-13
Joshua 8:35
2 Kings 12:2
Psalms 34:11; 78:5
Proverbs 3:1
Proverbs 13:24

Disciplining children

Hebrews 12:7-11

See also

Proverbs 19:18; 22:15; 23:13; 29:15,17
1 Timothy 3:4,12
1 Samuel 3:13
1 Kings 1:6

Lack of discipline

1 Kings 9:4

Good examples set for children by parents

2 Chronicles 17:3

David:

2 Chronicles 26:4
2 Timothy 1:5; 3:15

Amaziah

Lois and Eunice:

1 Kings 22:52

Bad examples set for children by parents

2 Chronicles 22:3

Ahab and Jezebel:

Jeremiah 9:14
Matthew 14:8

Herodias

Matthew 7:9-11

Provision and care for children

See also

1 Samuel 2:19

pp Lk 11:11-13

Proverbs 31:15,21
2 Corinthians 12:14
Titus 2:4

Love for children

See also

Genesis 37:3
Genesis 44:20,29-31

Jacob's special love for Joseph

2 Samuel 18:33

Jacob's love for Benjamin:

Luke 15:20

David's love for Absalom

See also

the father's love for the prodigal son

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