42 Bible Verses about Raising Children

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

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

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

And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

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

That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have 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 yours, 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 are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

Though they bring up their children, yet will I 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 to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

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

And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which 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 also he received him in a figure.

God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath 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 betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall 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, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, 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 unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

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

And woe unto them that are with child, and to them 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 shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.

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

And the child Samuel grew on, 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 beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

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

Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the 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 delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.