17 Bible Verses about Raising Children

and you fathers don't exasperate your children: but instruct them in the discipline and institution of the Lord.

that is, the children by natural descent are not thereby the children of God: but the children of the promise are alone considered as his posterity.

such as have been recommended by their good actions, by the education of their children, by their hospitality, by their officiousness to the faithful, by relieving the afflicted, and by the practice of every virtue.

This is the third time I purposed to come to you; but I will not be burdensome to you; for I seek not yours, but you: since it is not expected children should lay up for their parents, but parents for their children: on the contrary,

if a widow has children or grand-children, let them above all things instruct their own family to be religious, and let them be grateful to their parents, for this is acceptable to God.

and don't pretend to say within your selves, We have Abraham for our father: for I tell you, that God is able out of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham:

then the brother shall betray his brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against their parents, and be the instruments of their death.

however the women may be saved by educating their children, and persevering themselves in faith, in charity, in holiness and chastity. this may be depended upon as true.

greater joy I cannot have, than to hear that my children are attach'd to the truth.

concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the grave; from whence, in a figurative sense, be may be said to have been recover'd.

agreeable to what is written in the first psalm, "thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee."

then the brother shall betray his brother to death, and the father his son: children shall prosecute their parents, and be the instruments to take away their lives:

For it was agreeable to his wisdom, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to consecrate the author of their salvation by his sufferings.

they answered him, Abraham is our father. if you were Abraham's children, said Jesus, you would act like Abraham.

unhappy will they be that are with child, and they that give suck in those days.

a birth which they had not from circumcision, nor from the constitution of the body, nor the institution of man, but from God.

but Jesus oblig'd them to withdraw; then grasping her hand, he said, my child, arise.