13 Bible Verses about Training Children

Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Gather the people -- men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages -- so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the Lord your God and carefully obey all the words of this law. Then their children, who have not known this law, will also hear about and learn to fear the Lord your God for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess."

Joshua read aloud every commandment Moses had given before the whole assembly of Israel, including the women, children, and resident foreigners who lived among them.

Throughout his lifetime Jehoash did what the Lord approved, just as Jehoiada the priest taught him.

Come children! Listen to me! I will teach you what it means to fear the Lord.

He established a rule in Jacob; he set up a law in Israel. He commanded our ancestors to make his deeds known to their descendants,

My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

I have chosen him so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. Then the Lord will give to Abraham what he promised him."

and you must teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.

I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living according to the truth.