Conflict: Parents & Teens

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service... And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. - Romans 12:1,2

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right... Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)... That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth... And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. - Ephesians 6:1-4

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. - Proverbs 19:18

Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God. - Deuteronomy 12:28

For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. - Proverbs 3:12

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. Proverbs 20:11

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother. - Proverbs 30:11

The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. - Proverbs 20:7

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. - Colossians 3:21

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