GUIDE TO THE SCRIPTURES
Parents
See also Father, Mortal; Mother

Fathers and mothers. Worthy husbands and wives who have been properly sealed in marriage in a temple of God may fulfill their role as parents throughout eternity.

Children, obey your parents, Eph. 6: 1-3 (Col. 3: 20). Adam and Eve were our first parents, 1 Ne. 5: 11. The cursing may be upon the heads of your parents, 2 Ne. 4: 6. Teach parents that they must repent and be baptized, Moro. 8: 10. Parents are commanded to teach the gospel to their children, D&C 68: 25. All children have claim upon their parents, D&C 83: 4. The sins of the parents cannot be answered upon the heads of the children, Moses 6: 54.