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 you shall teach them to your sons, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

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

And all your sons shall be taught of Jehovah; and great shall be the peace of your sons.

And you shall carefully teach them to your sons, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

so that the generation to come might know; sons shall be born, and they shall arise and tell their sons,

That is, not the children of the flesh are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for a seed.

well reported of for good works: if she brought up children, if she lodged strangers, if she washed the feet of saints, if she relieved the afflicted, if she followed after every good work.

Behold, a third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not burden you, for I do not seek your things, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Foolishness 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 sons of the young.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be godly to their own house, and give back to their forebears what is due them; for that is good and pleasing before God.

Though they bring up their sons, yet I will make them childless, without a man. Yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

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

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

And did He not make you one? Yet the vestige of the Spirit is in him. And what of the one? He was seeking a godly seed. Then guard your spirit, and do not act treacherously with the wife of your youth.

His seed shall be mighty on earth; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

Her sons rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.

But she will be kept safe through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with sensibleness.

If brothers live together, and one of them dies and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as a wife for himself, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

I have no greater joy than these things, to hear that my children walk in the truth.

So says the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations, and have set up My banner to the people; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.

And Manoah prayed to Jehovah and said, O, my Lord, let the Man of God, whom You sent, come again to us and teach us what we shall do to the boy that shall be born.

concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from where he even received him, in a figure.

this God has fulfilled to us their children, raising up Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, "You are My Son, this day I have begotten You."

And a brother will betray a brother to death, and a father his son. And children will rise up against their parents and will cause them to be put to death.

And I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazarites from your young men. Is it not even so, O sons of Israel? says Jehovah.

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for Jehovah has spoken, I have nursed and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against Me.

And Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to your brother.

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

As for my people, children are their taskmasters, and women rule over them. Oh my people, your rulers cause you to go astray and destroy the way of your paths.

They answered and said to Him, Abraham is our father. Jesus answered them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.

And woe to those who are with child, and to those who give suck in those days!

Lift up your eyes all around, and see. All of them gather themselves; they come to you. Your sons shall come from far, and your daughters shall be nursed at your side.

They will not labor in vain, nor bring forth for terror. For they are the seed of the beloved of Jehovah, and their offspring with them.

And the child Samuel went on growing both in stature and in goodness, both with Jehovah and also with men.

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

If a man fathers a hundred, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also is for him no burial; I say, a miscarriage is better than he.

He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him chastens him early.

who were born, not of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but were born of God.

And He put them all out. And He took her by the hand and called, saying, Little girl, arise!

He pampering his servant from youth, that one in his latter days shall be his successor.