42 Bible Verses about Raising Children
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Train a child in the way appropriate for him, and when he becomes older, he will not turn from it.
Teach them to your children, talking about them while sitting in your house, walking on the road, or when you are about to lie down or get up.
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up by training and instructing them about the Lord.
Then all your children will be taught by the LORD, and great will be your children's prosperity.
Teach them repeatedly to your children. Talk about them while sitting in your house or walking on the road, and as you lie down or get up.
in order that the next generation children yet to be born will know them and in turn teach them to their children.
That is, it is not merely the children born through natural descent who were regarded as God's children, but it is the children born through the promise who were regarded as descendants.
She must be well known for her good actions as a woman who has raised children, welcomed strangers, washed the saints' feet, helped the suffering, and devoted herself to doing good in every way.
Now I'm ready to visit you for a third time, and I will not bother you for help. I do not want your things, but rather you yourselves. Children should not have to support their parents, but parents their children.
A child's heart has a tendency to do wrong, but the rod of discipline removes it far away from him.
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to respect their own family by repaying their parents, for this is pleasing in God's sight.
Even if they rear their children, I will, in turn, make them childless in fact, woe to them when I turn away from them!
Don't think you can say to yourselves, "We have father Abraham!' because I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones!
"Brother will hand brother over for execution, and a father his child. Children will rebel against parents and have them put to death.
Did he not make them one? And the vestige of the spirit remains in him. And why did he make them one? He was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and don't be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.
His descendants will be powerful in the land, a generation of the upright who will be blessed.
even though she will be saved through the birth of the Child, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, along with good judgment.
"When two brothers are living together and one of them dies without leaving a son, his widow must not be married outside the family to a foreigner. Instead, the brother-in-law must go to her, take her as his wife, and by doing so perform the duty of a brother-in-law.
"For this what the LORD says, "Watch! I'll lift up my hand to the nations and raise my banner to the nations. They will bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.'
So Manoah prayed to the LORD, "Please, Lord, have the man of God whom you sent before come again so he can instruct us what to do on behalf of the child who is to be born."
Abraham was certain that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did get Isaac back in this way.
he has fulfilled for us, their descendants, by raising Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm, "You are my Son. Today I have become your Father.'
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.
I also raised up your sons to be prophets, and from your young men I raised up Nazirites. Is this not true, people of Israel?" declares the LORD.
Listen, you heavens, and let the earth pay attention, because the LORD has spoken: "I reared children and brought them to adulthood, but then they rebelled against me.
So Judah instructed Onan, "You are to have sexual relations with your dead brother's wife, performing the duty of a brother-in-law with her, and have offspring for your brother."
It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through suffering as part of his plan to glorify many children,
"As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders are misleading you they're giving you confusing directions."
"How terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days!
"Lift up your eyes and look around: They all gather together, they come to you; your sons will come from far away, and your daughters will be carried on the hip."
They won't toil in vain nor bear children doomed to misfortune, for they will be offspring blessed by the LORD, they and their descendants with them.
But they would not follow the advice of their father; for the LORD wanted to put them to death. But the boy Samuel continued to grow both physically and in favor with the LORD and the people.
That's how both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father.
A man might father a hundred children, and live for many years, so that the length of his life is long but if his life does not overflow with goodness, and he doesn't receive a proper burial, I maintain that stillborn children are better off than he is,
Whoever does not discipline his son hates him, but whoever loves him is diligent to correct him.
who were born, not merely in a genetic sense, nor from lust, nor from man's desire, but from the will of God.
If you pamper a servant from his childhood, later on he'll become ungrateful.
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