42 Bible Verses about Raising Children

Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

You shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

“All your sons will be taught of the Lord;
And the well-being of your sons will be great.

You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.

That the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born,
That they may arise and tell them to their children,

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants.

having a reputation for good works; and if she has brought up children, if she has shown hospitality to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has assisted those in distress, and if she has devoted herself to every good work.

Here for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you; for children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;
The rod of discipline will remove it far from him.

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,
So are the children of one’s youth.

but if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to practice piety in regard to their own family and to make some return to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them until not a man is left.
Yes, woe to them indeed when I depart from them!

and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham.

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while he was seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth.

His descendants will be mighty on earth;
The generation of the upright will be blessed.

Her children rise up and bless her;
Her husband also, and he praises her, saying:

But women will be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint.

“When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.

Thus says the Lord God,
“Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations
And set up My standard to the peoples;
And they will bring your sons in their bosom,
And your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.

Then Manoah entreated the Lord and said, “O Lord, please let the man of God whom You have sent come to us again that he may teach us what to do for the boy who is to be born.”

He considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead, from which he also received him back as a type.

that God has fulfilled this promise to our children in that He raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘You are My Son; today i have begotten You.’

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.

“Then I raised up some of your sons to be prophets
And some of your young men to be Nazirites.
Is this not so, O sons of Israel?” declares the Lord.

Listen, O heavens, and hear, O earth;
For the Lord speaks,
“Sons I have reared and brought up,
But they have revolted against Me.

Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform your duty as a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”

For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings.

O My people! Their oppressors are children,
And women rule over them.
O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray
And confuse the direction of your paths.

They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus *said to them, “If you are Abraham’s children, do the deeds of Abraham.

But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

“Lift up your eyes round about and see;
They all gather together, they come to you.
Your sons will come from afar,
And your daughters will be carried in the arms.

“They will not labor in vain,
Or bear children for calamity;
For they are the offspring of those blessed by the Lord,
And their descendants with them.

Now the boy Samuel was growing in stature and in favor both with the Lord and with men.

Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,

He who withholds his rod hates his son,
But he who loves him disciplines him diligently.

who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

He, however, took her by the hand and called, saying, “Child, arise!”

He who pampers his slave from childhood
Will in the end find him to be a son.