17 Bible Verses about Raising Children

And you fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up in the nature and admonition of the Lord.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as his posterity.

She must be well reputed for good works, as one who has brought up a family, received strangers with hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, relieved the distressed, and diligently followed every good work.

And now for the third time I am preparing to visit you. I will not be a burden to you, for I am not seeking yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

but if any widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn to show their piety first toward their own household, and to make some return to their parents, for that is pleasing in God's sight.

And do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father'?? tell you that out of these very stones God is able to raise up descendants for Abraham.

"And brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against their parents and put them to death.

Notwithstanding she will be saved by the Child-bearing; (so will they all), if they live in faith and love and holiness, with self-restraint.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are passing their lives in the truth.

For he accounted God able even to raise from the dead, from whence, figuratively speaking, he did indeed receive him back again.

"how that God fulfilled it for us their children in raising up Jesus; as it is also written in the second Psalm, "Thou art my son, today have I become thy Father.

"And brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise up against their parents, and have them put to death.

For it befitted him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

"Abraham is our father," they answered. "If you are indeed Abraham's children," said Jesus "do the deeds of Abraham.

Alas for thee women who are with child, and for the nursing mothers in those days!

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

But he took her by the hand and called to her, "Little daughter, rise!"