42 Bible Verses about Raising Children

Train up the child according to the tenor of his way, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

And ye shall teach them unto your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up;

And ye fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline 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 impress them on thy sons, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

That the generation to come might know them, the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell them to their children,

That is, they that are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.

borne witness to in good works, if she have brought up children, if she have exercised hospitality, if she have washed saints' feet, if she have imparted relief to the distressed, if she have diligently followed every good work.

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

Folly is bound in the heart of a child; 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 have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

For even should they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that not a man remain: for woe also to them when I shall have departed from them!

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

But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents and shall put them to death;

And did not one make them? and the remnant of the Spirit was his. And wherefore the one? He sought a seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let none deal unfaithfully against the wife of his youth,

His seed shall be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

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

But she shall be preserved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with discretion.

If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not marry a stranger abroad: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.

I have no greater joy than these things that I 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 banner to the peoples; and they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried upon the shoulder.

Then Mano'ah entreated the LORD, and said, "O, LORD, I pray thee, let the man of God whom thou didst send come again to us, and teach us what we are to do with the boy that will be born."

counting that God was able to raise him even from among the dead, whence also he received him in a figure.

that God has fulfilled this to us their children, having raised up Jesus; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee.

But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father 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 Nazarites. Is it not even thus, ye children of Israel? saith Jehovah.

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

Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to thy brother's wife, and fulfil to her the brother-in-law's duty, and raise up seed to thy brother.

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

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people! they that guide thee mislead thee, and destroy the way of thy paths.

They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham;

But woe to those that are with child, and those that give suck in those days.

Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons come from afar, and thy daughters are carried upon the side.

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

And the boy Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with Jehovah and also with men.

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

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

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

who have been born, not of blood, nor of flesh's will, nor of man's will, but of God.

But he, having turned them all out and taking hold of her hand, cried saying, Child, arise.

He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child, shall in the end have him as a son.