41 Bible Verses about Raising Children

If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

Teaching them to your children, and talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up:

And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.

And all your builders will be made wise by the Lord; and great will be the peace of your children.

Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.

So that the generation to come might have knowledge of them, even the children of the future, who would give word of them to their children;

That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed.

And if witness is given of her good works; if she has had the care of children, if she has been kind to travellers, washing the feet of the saints, helping those who are in trouble, giving herself to good works.

This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.

Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.

Even though their children have come to growth I will take them away, so that not a man will be there; for their evil-doing will be complete and they will be put to shame because of it.

And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.

And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.

Her children get up and give her honour, and her husband gives her praise, saying,

But if they go on in faith and love and holy self-control, she will be kept safe at the time of childbirth.

If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.

I have no greater joy than to have news that my children are walking in the true way.

This is the word of the Lord God: See, I will make a sign with my hand to the nations, and put up my flag for the peoples; and they will take up your sons on their beasts, and your daughters on their backs.

Then Manoah made prayer to the Lord, and said, O Lord, let the man of God whom you sent come to us again and make clear to us what we are to do for the child who is to come.

Judging that God was able to give life even to the dead; and because of this he did get him back as if from death.

Which God has now put into effect for our children, by sending Jesus; as it says in the second Psalm, You are my Son; this day I have given you being.

And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

And some of your sons I made prophets, and some of your young men I made separate for myself. Is it not even so, O children of Israel? says the Lord.

Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.

Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife and do what it is right for a husband's brother to do; make her your wife and get offspring for your brother.

Because it was right for him, for whom and through whom all things have being, in guiding his sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation complete through pain.

As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

In answer they said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children you would do what Abraham did.

But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.

Let your eyes be lifted up, and see: they are all coming together to you: your sons will come from far, and your daughters taken with loving care.

Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be with them.

And the young Samuel, becoming older, had the approval of the Lord and of men.

And so the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father.

If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.

Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

But he, taking her hand, said to her, My child, get up.

If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.