42 Bible Verses about Raising Children

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

And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

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

And all your children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of your children.

And you shall teach them diligently unto 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 up.

That the generation to come might know them, even the children who should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

That is, They who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the descendants.

Well reported of for good works; if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety at home, and so repay their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

And did not he make them one? Yet had he the remnant of the spirit. And why one? That he might seek a godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

His descendants shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.

Yet she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with propriety.

If brethren dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God whom you did send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.

Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from which also he received him in a figure.

God has fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he has raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you.

Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.

And I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O you children of Israel? says the LORD.

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

And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto your brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up descendants to your brother.

For it befitted him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

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

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

And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that nurse a child in those days!

Lift up your eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to you: your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be nursed at your side.

They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the descendants of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.

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

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

If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also that he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn birth is better than he.

He that spares his rod hates his son: but he that loves him chastens him early.

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

And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, Child, arise.

He that carefully brings up his servant from a child shall have him become his son in the end.