17 Bible Verses about Raising Children

You fathers, too, must not irritate your children, but you must bring them up with Christian training and instruction.

That is to say, it is not his physical descendants who are children of God, but his descendants born in fulfilment of the promise who are considered his true posterity.

and have a good reputation for Christian service, such as bringing up children, being hospitable to strangers, washing the feet of God's people, helping people in distress, or devoting herself to any form of doing good.

Here it is the third time that I have been ready to come to see you, and I do not intend to be a burden to you now; for it is not your money but yourselves that I want; for children are not expected to lay up money for their parents, but parents for their children.

If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety in the treatment of their own families, and to return the care of those who brought them up, for that is what God approves.

Do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our forefather,' for I tell you God can produce descendants for Abraham right out of these stones!

One brother will give up another to death, and a father his child, and children will turn against their parents, and have them put to death.

But they will be saved through motherhood, if they continue to have faith and to be loving and holy, and sensible as well.

I know of no greater blessing than hearing that my children are being guided by the truth.

For he believed that God was able to raise men even from the dead, and from the dead he did indeed, to speak figuratively, receive him back.

that God has fulfilled to us, their children, the promise that he made to our forefathers, by raising Jesus to life, just as the Scripture says in the second psalm, You are my Son! Today I have become your Father!'

Brother will give up brother to be put to death, and the father his child, and children will turn against their parents and have them put to death.

For it was appropriate that he who is the great First Cause of the universe should, in guiding his many children to his glorious salvation, make their leader in it fully qualified through what he suffered.

They answered, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you are Abraham's children, then do what Abraham did.

But alas for women who are with child at that time or who have babies!

owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God.

But he grasped her hand and called out, "Get up, my child!"