42 Bible Verses about Raising Children

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

And ye shall teach them your children, talking of them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

And all thy children shall be taught of Jehovah; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

That the generation to come might know them , even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell them to their children,

That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.

well reported of for good works; if she hath brought up children, if she hath used hospitality to strangers, if she hath washed the saints feet, if she hath relieved the afflicted, if she hath diligently followed every good work.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; But the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, So are the children of youth.

But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, so that not a man shall be left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

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

And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

His seed shall be mighty upon earth: The generation of the upright shall be blessed.

Her children rise up, and call her blessed; Her husband also , and he praiseth her,'saying :

but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.

Greater joy have I none than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my ensign to the peoples; and they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

Then Manoah entreated Jehovah, and said, Oh, Lord, I pray thee, let the man of God whom thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.

accounting that God is able to raise up, even from the dead; from whence he did also in a figure receive him back.

that God hath fulfilled the same unto our children, in that he raised up Jesus; as also it is written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith Jehovah.

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

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

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

They answered and said unto him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.

But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!

Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: they all gather themselves together, they come to thee; thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be carried in the arms.

They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Jehovah, and their offspring with them.

And the child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Jehovah, and also with men.

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

If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

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

But he, taking her by the hand, called, saying, Maiden, arise.

He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child Shall have him become a son at the last.