42 Bible Verses about Raising Children

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

And ye shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when thou sit in thy house, and when thou walk by the way, and when thou lay down, and when thou rise up.

And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children, but rear them in the training and admonition of Lord.

And all thy sons shall be taught of LORD, and great shall be the peace of thy sons.

And thou shall teach them diligently to thy sons, and shall talk of them when thou sit in thy house, and when thou walk by the way, and when thou lay down, and when thou rise up.

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

That is, the children of the flesh, these are not children of God, instead, the children of the promise are reckoned for seed.

being testified in good works: if she has reared children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the feet of the sanctified, if she has relieved those who are afflicted, if she has followed every good work.

Behold, a third time I fare readily to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not the things of you, but you. For the children ought not lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

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

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be devoted to their own house, and to give back recompense to their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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

And think not to say within yourselves, We have a father, Abraham. For I say to you, that God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

And a brother will deliver up a brother to death, and a father a child. And children will rise up against parents, and condemn them to death.

And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And 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 shall be mighty upon earth. The generation of the upright shall be blessed.

Her sons rise up, and call her blessed. Her husband [also], and he praises her.

But she will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

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

I have no greater joy than these things that I hear my children walking in truth.

Thus says lord LORD: Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my ensign to the peoples. And they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

Then Manoah entreated LORD, and said, Oh, LORD, I pray thee, let the man of God whom thou sent come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the child that shall be born.

Having reckoned that God is able to raise up even from the dead, from where also, in a figure, he did receive him back.

as also it is written in the second psalm, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee.

And brother will betray brother to death, and a father a child. And children will rise up against parents, and will condemn them to death.

And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye sons of Israel? says LORD.

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for LORD has spoken. I have nourished and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against me.

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

For it was fitting for him, through whom are all things, and because of whom are all things, having brought many sons to glory, to make the pathfinder of their salvation fully perfect through sufferings.

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

They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.

And woe to those who have in the womb and to those who suckle in those days.

Lift up thine eyes round about, and see. They all gather themselves together. They come to thee. Thy sons shall come from far, and thy 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 LORD, and their offspring with them.

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

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

If a man begets a hundred sons, 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 an untimely birth is better than he.

He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him chastens him promptly.

who were begotten, not from blood, nor from a will of flesh, nor from a will of man, but from God.

But having sent them all away outside, having taken her by the hand, he called out, saying, Girl, awake.

He who brings up his servant gently from childhood shall have him become a son at the last.