13 Bible Verses about Training Children

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

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

Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and your stranger that is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: And that their children, who have not known anything, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land which you go over Jordan to possess.

There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were living among them.

And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

Come, you children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?

Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with a rod, he shall not die.

For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him.

And you shall teach them diligently unto 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.

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