17 Bible Verses about Raising Children

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

That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the posterity.

having a good reputation for good works; if she has borne children, if she has entertained strangers, if she has washed the saints feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.

Behold, I am ready the third time to come to you, and I will not burden you: for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

But if any widow has children or grand-children, let them learn first to be dutiful to their own family, and to requite their parents; for that is good and acceptable in the sight of God.

and think not to say within yourselves, "We have Abraham for our father; for I say to you that God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father the child; and children will rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

but they shall be saved by the bearing of children, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with sobriety.

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in the truth.

for he concluded that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; wherefore he received him even in like manner.

that God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, by raising up Jesus, as it is written in the second Psalm: Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father the child; and children will rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death;

For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

They answered and said to him: Abra ham is our father. Jesus said to them: If you were the children of Abraham, you would do the works of Abraham.

But alas for those who are with child, and those who give suck in those days!

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

But he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, and said: Child, arise.