46 Bible Verses about Children, needs of

These words that I command you this day must be in your heart. Carefully teach them to your sons. Talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way. Speak about them when you lie down, and when you rise up.

I did this because I want you to tell your children and your grandchildren about the mighty things and the signs I have done in Egypt. Then all of you will know that I am Jehovah.

When your children ask you: What does this rite mean to you? You shall say: 'It is a Passover sacrifice to Jehovah who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He killed the Egyptians, but spared our homes. The people bowed low and worshiped.'

In the future when your children ask you, 'What does this mean?' tell them: 'Jehovah used his mighty hand to bring us out of slavery in Egypt.'' Pharaoh was too stubborn to let us go. Because of this every firstborn male in Egypt-human and animal was killed. This is why we sacrifice every firstborn male to Jehovah and buy every firstborn son back from Jehovah.

Be on your guard! Make sure you do not forget, as long as you live, what you have seen with your own eyes. Teach them to your children and your grandchildren.

In the future your son will ask you: 'What is the meaning of these laws and regulations that Jehovah our God has commanded you?' You will answer your son: 'We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Teach them to your children! Talk about them in your home and away. Speak of them when you lie down or get up.

My son, listen to the instruction of your father. Do not forsake the law of your mother.

The living, yes the living praise you, as I am doing today! Fathers tell their children about your faithfulness.

Tell your children about it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to each new generation.

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

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of God.

Assemble the people, the men and the women and children and the alien who is in your town. Assemble them that they may hear and learn and respect Jehovah your God, and be careful to observe all the words of this Law. Their children, who have not known, will hear and learn to respect Jehovah your God, as long as you live on the land you will possess when you cross the Jordan River.

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

Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of Jehovah all his days, because he was guided by the teaching of Jehoiada the priest.

Come, you sons, listen to me. I will teach you the respect of Jehovah.

He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel. This he commanded our fathers that they should teach them to their children,

My son, do not forget my law. Let your heart obey my commandments.

He who spares the rod (authority) hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines (instructs) him promptly.

God deals with you like children. Endure discipline (instruction) (training). Who is the child whom a father does not discipline? If you are without discipline, you are illegitimate children, and not sons. Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh that corrected us, and we gave them respect. Shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?read more.
They disciplined us for a few days for their own pleasure. He disciplines for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Now no discipline for the present seems to be joyous. In fact it seems grievous! Nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained.

Correct your son while there is hope. Do not contribute to his death.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child. The rod of discipline (instruction) will drive it far from him.

Do not withhold discipline from a child. If you spank him with a stick he will not die.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

one who manages well his own house, having his children in subjection with all seriousness;

I told him I would hand down a long lasting judgment against his household because he knew about his sons' sin. They were cursing God but he did not restrain them.

His father never confronted him by asking: Why have you done this?

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;

Jehovah blessed Jehoshaphat because he followed the example of his father's early life and did not worship Baal.

He did what Jehovah considered right, as his father Amaziah had done.

I am mindful of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well.

From childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to make you wise to salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus.

He sinned against Jehovah, following the wicked example of his father Ahab, his mother Jezebel, and King Jeroboam, who had led Israel into sin.

Ahaziah also followed the ways of Ahab's family, because his mother gave him advice that led him to sin.

They have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals as their fathers taught them.

Prompted by her mother, she said: Give me John the Baptist's head on a platter.

Who among you, who would give his son a stone when he asks him for bread? Who will give him a serpent when he asks for a fish? Even though you are a sinner, you know how to give good gifts to your children. Think how much more your Father in heaven gives good things to those who ask him!

What father would give his son a stone when he asked for a loaf? What father would give a serpent when his son asked for a fish? If he asked for an egg would he give a scorpion? If you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?

His mother made him a little robe. She brought it to him when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

She rises while it is still night and provides food for her household, and a portion to her maidens.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you. I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you. The children should not provide for the parents, but the parents for the children.

They may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Jacob (Israel) loved Joseph more than all his sons because Joseph had been born in Israel's old age. So he made Joseph a special multicolored robe with long sleeves.

We answered, 'We have a father who is old and a younger brother born to him when he was already old. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'

The king was shaken by the news. He went to the room above the gate and cried. My son Absalom! He said. My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!

He went to his father. He was a long way from home when his father saw him. His heart filled with pity. He ran and threw his arms around his son and kissed him.