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What does the Bible say about authority over your children?

14 verses about authority over your children, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

9 booksMost in Proverbs

Bible verses about authority over your children

Ephesians 6:1 — Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 8 votes
Colossians 3:20 — Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. 8 votes
Hebrews 13:17 — Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you. 8 votes
Deuteronomy 11:19 — And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 5 votes
Ephesians 6:2 — Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) 5 votes
Proverbs 19:18 — Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. 4 votes
Exodus 20:12 — Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 3 votes
Exodus 21:15 — And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 3 votes
Colossians 3:21 — Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. 3 votes
Proverbs 13:24 — He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. 2 votes
Proverbs 22:15 — Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. 2 votes
Matthew 15:4 — For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. 2 votes
1 Timothy 3:5 — (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) 2 votes
2 Timothy 2:14 — Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. 2 votes

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Proverbs (3), Exodus (2), Ephesians (2), Colossians (2), Deuteronomy (1), Matthew (1), 1 Timothy (1), 2 Timothy (1), Hebrews (1)

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