42 Bible Verses about Raising Children

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

And ye shall teach them to your children that ye may think of them sitting in thy house and walking by the way, lying down in bed, and rising up.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

And all thy sons shall be taught of the LORD; and the peace of thy sons shall be multiplied.

and thou shalt repeat them diligently unto thy sons and shalt talk of them being in thy house and walking by the way, lying down in bed, and rising up;

That the generation to come might know them, even the sons which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their sons

That is, Those who are sons of the flesh, these are not the sons of God; but those who are sons of the promise are counted in the generation.

having a good testimony of good works, if she has brought up well her children, if she has exercised hospitality, if she has washed the feet of the saints, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not your things, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Foolishness is bound 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 young men.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let those learn first to govern their house in piety and to recompense their parents, for this is honest and pleasing before God.

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

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

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

And did he not make one, having in himself abundance of the Spirit? And why one? That he might seek offspring of God. Therefore take heed to your spirit and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Gimel His seed shall be mighty upon earth; Daleth the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

Koph Her sons rose up and called her blessed; her husband also, and he praised her.

notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if she continues in faith and charity and sanctification and modesty.

When brethren dwell together and one of them dies and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside 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.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my sons walk in the truth.

Thus has the Lord GOD said, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles and raise up my banner as an example to the peoples: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

Then Manoah prayed unto the LORD and said, O my Lord, 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 was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence he also received him in a figure.

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

Now the brother shall deliver the brother unto death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents and shall kill them.

And I raised up of your sons for prophets and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye sons of Israel? said the LORD.

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD speaks, I have nourished and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against me.

Then Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife and marry her and raise up seed to thy brother.

For it was expedient that he, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, preparing to bring forth many sons in his glory, should perfect the author of their saving health through sufferings.

The oppressors of my people are many, and women rule over him. O my people, those who lead thee cause thee to err and twist the way of thy paths.

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

And woe unto those that are with child and to those 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 nursed at thy side.

They shall not labour in vain, nor give birth with fear; for their births are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring shall be with them.

And the child Samuel kept on growing and was in favour both with the LORD and also with men.

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

If a man begets a hundred sons and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his soul is not filled with good and also that he have no burial; I say that an aborted birth is better than he.

He that cuts short chastening hates his son, but he that loves him chastens him early.

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

And he put them all out and took her by the hand and called, saying, Maid, arise.

He that gives freely unto his slave from a child shall have him become his son in the end.