42 Bible Verses about Raising Children

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

You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

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

All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children.

You shall teach them diligently to 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.

that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,

This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.

and having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work.

Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!

And do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father,' for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,

Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.

His offspring will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.

Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:

Yet she will be saved through childbearing--if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

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

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and raise my signal to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.

Then Manoah prayed to the LORD and said, "O Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us and teach us what we are to do with the child who will be born."

He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.

this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, "'You are my Son, today I have begotten you.'

And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

And I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?" declares the LORD.

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken: "Childrenhave I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.

Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother."

For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.

My people--infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths.

They answered him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did,

And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!

Lift up your eyes all around, and see; they all gather together, they come to you; your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be carried on the hip.

They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the LORD, and their descendants with them.

Now the young man Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the LORD and also with man.

Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

But taking her by the hand he called, saying, "Child, arise."

Whoever pampers his servant from childhood will in the end find him his heir.