Children - The Responsibility of Children

To remember their Creator:

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them”—

To fear Jehovah:

Proverbs 24:21 

Fear the LORD and the king, my son, and do not join with the rebellious,

To obey God:

Deuteronomy 30:2 

And when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today,

To hear the instruction of their parents:

Proverbs 1:8-9 

8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

9 They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.

To respect those who bore them:

Ephesians 6:2 

“Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise—

Hebrews 12:9 

Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live!

To keep their commandments:

Proverbs 6:20 

My son, keep your father's commands and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

Ephesians 6:1 

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Ephesians 3:20 

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,

To care for those who bore them:

1 Timothy 5:4 

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.

Not to follow the evil example of their parents:

Ezekiel 20:18 

I said to their children in the desert, “Do not follow the statutes of your fathers or keep their laws or defile yourselves with their idols.