31 Bible Verses about Nurture

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

Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, in order that they may not be discouraged.

having received the remembrance of the unhypocritical faith which is in you; which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice; and, I am persuaded that it is in you also.

and that from an infant thou hast known the holy scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

but we were gentle in the midst of you, as if a nurse may cherish her children; being so desirous of you, that we are anxious not only to give the gospel of God, but our own souls, because you are beloved unto us. For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil: night and day working, that we should burden no one of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.read more.
You are witnesses, and God, how sacredly and righteously and blamelessly we were unto you who believed: as you know, exhorting each one of you, as a father of his own children, and comforting you, and testifying, that you walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

Then when they took breakfast, Jesus says to Simon Peter; Simon, the son of Jonah, dost thou love me with divine love more than these? He says to Him, Yes, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee as a friend. He says to him; Feed my lambs. Again He says to him a second time, Simon, the son of Jonah, do you love me with divine love? He says to Him; Thou knowest that I love thee as a friend. He says to him; Shepherdize my sheeplings. He says to him a third time; Simon, the son of Jonah, do you love me as a friend? Peter was grieved, because He said to him the third time, Do you love me as a friend? And he says to Him, Lord, thou knowest all things; and thou dost understand that I love thee as a friend. He says to Him, Feed my sheeplings.

And when they came to him, he said to them, You know, that from the first day from which I came unto Asia, how I was with you all the time, serving the Lord with all humility, and tears, and temptations, which came upon me through the plots of the Jews: how I omitted nothing of those things which are profitable, that I should not declare unto you and teach you publicly and from house to house,

I do not write these things shaming you, but admonishing you as my beloved children. For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, but you have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

night and day praying incessantly that we may see your face, and perfect the deficiencies of your faith?

holding that which is according to the teaching of the faithful word, in order that he may be able both to exhort with healthy teaching, and to convict the opposers.

Therefore I, being a fellow-elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, also a communicant of the glory which is about to be revealed, exhort the elders who are among you: shepherdize the flock of God which is among you, not coercively, but willingly, for the sake of God; not for filthy lucre, but cheerfully. Not as domineering over the heritages, but having become examples of the flock:

Likewise exhort the young men to be prudent: concerning all things exhibiting yourself an example of good works; in teaching; purity, gravity,

I have not sought the silver, or gold, or raiment of any one; you yourselves know, that these hands did minister to my necessities, and those along with me. I have shown you all things, that it so behooveth you laboring to assist the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Therefore I exhort you, be ye imitators of me. For this same thing I sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ Jesus, as I teach everywhere in every church.

Be ye imitators of me, as I also am of Christ.

Whatsoever things you have indeed learned and received and heard and seen in me, do the same: and the God of peace will be with you.

because our gospel came not unto you in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as you know what sort we were among you for your sakes. And you became imitators of us, and the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with the joy of the Holy Ghost;

And we, exhort you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the small-souled people, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all. See that no one may return evil for evil to any one; but always pursue good toward one another, and toward all.

But receive to yourselves him who is weak in faith, not into disputations of doubtful matters.

See lest this liberty of yours may become a stumblingblock to the weak. For if any one may see you having knowledge sitting at the table in the idol temple, will not the conscience of him, being weak, be encouraged to eat things sacrificed to the idols? For the weak one is destroyed by your knowledge, the brother for whom Christ died.read more.
And you, sinning so against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, are sinning against Christ. If indeed meat causes my brother to stumble, I never eat any more meat, in order that I may not lay a stumblingblock in the way of my brother.

Brethren, if indeed a man may be overtaken in some transgression, you who are spiritual, perfect such an one in the spirit of meekness; watching yourself, lest you may also be tempted. Bear the burdens of one another, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Therefore exhort one another, and edify either the other, as you indeed are doing.

likewise that the elderly women be reverent in demeanor, not tattlers, not given to much wine, teachers of that which is good; in order that they instruct the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be prudent, chaste, domestic, good, submissive to their own husbands, in order that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

like newly born babes, desire the pure milk of the word, in order that you may grow thereby unto salvation:

I have fed you with milk, not with meat; for you were not yet able. But ye are not now yet able:

Brethren, be not children in intellect: but be infants in evil, but be perfect in intellect.

Concerning whom there is much word to us, and difficult to speak, since you are dull of hearing. For indeed you, who ought to be teachers so far as time is concerned, have need that some one again teach you what are the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God; and you have need of milk, not solid food. For every one partaking of milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness; for he is a babe;read more.
but solid food belongs to the perfect, those having their senses disciplined by use unto the discernment both of the good and the evil.

but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and unto the day of the age.

But we all, with unveiled face beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

but speaking the truth in divine love, let its grow up in him in all things, who is the head, Christ;

We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as it is worthy, because your faith increases, and the divine love of each one of you all towards one another abounds more and more;