17 Bible Verses about Raising Children

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

In other words, it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned as descendants.

and she must be well known for her good deeds, as one who has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, relieved those in distress, and devoted herself to doing good in every way.

Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not what is yours but you; for children ought not to lay up for their parents, but parents for their children.

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

and do not think to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

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

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

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

He considered that God was able to raise men even from the dead; from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.

he has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising 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.

For it was fitting that he, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.

They answered him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the things Abraham did,

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

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

But he took her by the hand and called, saying, "Child, arise."