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Family, Children, Responsibilities toward

See also Children ; Family ; Marriage, Fatherhood ; Marriage, Motherhood
  • command his children and his household … keep the way of the Lord: Gen. 18:19 .
  • teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons: Deut. 4:9 .
  • teach them diligently unto thy children: Deut. 6:7 .
  • teach … your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house: Deut. 11:19 .
  • command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law: Deut. 32:46 .
  • make them known to their children: Ps. 78:5 .
  • son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes: Prov. 13:24 .
  • Train up a child in the way he should go: Prov. 22:6 . ( 2 Ne. 4:5 . )
  • Withhold not correction from the child: Prov. 23:13 .
  • all thy children shall be taught of the Lord: Isa. 54:13 .
  • despise not one of these little ones: Matt. 18:10 .
  • bring them up in the nurture … of the Lord: Eph. 6:4 .
  • Fathers, provoke not your children to anger: Col. 3:21 .
  • having his children in subjection with all gravity: 1 Tim. 3:4 .
  • if any provide not for his own: 1 Tim. 5:8 .
  • having been born of goodly parents, therefore I was taught: 1 Ne. 1:1 .
  • exhort … with all the feeling of a tender parent: 1 Ne. 8:37 .
  • that our children may know to what source they may look: 2 Ne. 25:26 .
  • remember your children … because of the example: Jacob 3:10 .
  • father … a just man—for he taught me: Enos 1:1 .
  • teach them to his children, that thereby they could teach: Mosiah 1:4 .
  • teach them to walk in the ways of truth and soberness: Mosiah 4:15 .
  • prepare the minds of their children to hear the word: Alma 39:16 .
  • defend your families even unto bloodshed: Alma 43:47 .
  • Pray in your families … that … children may be blessed: 3 Ne. 18:21 .
  • thy children shall be taught: 3 Ne. 22:13 .
  • children also may receive instruction before me: D&C 55:4 .
  • parents … that teach them not to understand: D&C 68:25 .
  • children have claim upon their parents for their maintenance: D&C 83:4 .
  • bring up your children in light: D&C 93:40 .
  • teach these things freely unto your children: Moses 6:58 .
See also Josh. 24:15 ; 1 Sam. 2:12 ; 1 Sam. 3:13 ; Prov. 29:15 ; Mal. 4:6 ; 3 Jn. 1:4 ; Jacob 2:35 ; Moses 6:6