Bible Verses About Authority Over Your Children
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for authority over your children, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 310 votes, led by Colossians 3:20. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Authority Over Your Children
Colossians 3:2042 votes
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Hebrews 13:1740 votes
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.
Ephesians 6:1-339 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Ephesians 6:227 votes
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
Deuteronomy 11:1926 votes
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.
Ephesians 6:124 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Proverbs 19:1821 votes
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
Exodus 21:1518 votes
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
Exodus 20:1214 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Proverbs 22:1513 votes
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Colossians 3:2113 votes
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
1 Timothy 3:512 votes
(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
Matthew 15:411 votes
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Proverbs 13:2410 votes
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
What does the Bible say about authority over your children?
Readers most often cite Colossians 3:20 on the subject of authority over your children. Across 310 votes, 14 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 13:17, Ephesians 6:1-3, Ephesians 6:2. This page lists all 14 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.