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.

You shall teach them your children, talking 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.

And fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

All your children shall be taught by God; and great shall be the peace of your children.

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, 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.

that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not what is yours, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them.

and do not think to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell 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. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

His seed will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

but she will be delivered through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with good judgment.

If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.

Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my banner to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.

Then Manoah pleaded with the LORD, and said, "Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you did send come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the child who shall be born."

concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.

that God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, 'You are my Son. Today I have become your father.'

"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn't this true, you children of Israel?" says the LORD.

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for the LORD has spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother."

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.

But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days.

"Lift up your eyes all around, and see: they all gather themselves together, they come to you; your sons shall come from far, and your daughters shall be carried in the arms.

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

The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with the LORD, and also with men.

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

If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

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

But he, taking her by the hand, called, saying, "Child, arise."

He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.