25 Bible Verses About Parental Authority

And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,

And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.

And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.

And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.

And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.

Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

And the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;

But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the Lord shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.

And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?

And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.

For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:

And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.

And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:

If a woman also vow a vow unto the Lord, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth;

If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.