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.

Teach them to your children! Talk about them in your home and away. Speak of them when you lie down or get up.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of God.

Your sons will all be taught by Jehovah. Your sons will have an abundance of peace.

Carefully teach them to your sons. Talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way. Speak about them when you lie down, and when you rise up.

That the generation to come might know, the children to be born, that they may arise and tell to their children,

That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as seed.

having a good reputation for good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the feet of the holy ones, 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. I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you. The children should not provide for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child. The rod of discipline (instruction) will drive it far from him.

The children born to a man when he is young are like arrows in the hand of a warrior.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show righteousness towards their own family, and to repay their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them until no man is left. Yes, woe to them even when I depart from them!

Do not presume that Abraham is your father. I tell you that God can make descendants for Abraham from these stones!

People will hand over their brothers to be put to death. Parents will oppose children and children will oppose parents, causing them to be put to death.

Did God make you one? Your flesh and spirit belong to him. What does God look for but godly descendants? Do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.

His descendants will grow strong on the earth. The family of the upright will be blessed.

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

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

When brothers live together and one of them dies without a son the wife of the deceased shall not marry outside the family to a strange man. Her husband's brother shall marry her and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

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

Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, said Jehovah. I will set up my standard for the peoples. They will bring your sons and your daughters in their bosom and carried on their shoulders.

Then Manoah prayed to Jehovah: Please, Jehovah, let the man of God that you sent come back to teach us what we must do with the boy when he is born.

Abraham reasoned that God is able to raise him from the dead. So he figured he would receive him back.

God has fulfilled this promise to their children by resurrecting Jesus. Just as it is written in the second psalm: You are my Son, today I have become your father. (Psalms 2:7)

Brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

I ordained some of your sons for prophets and some of your young men for Nazirites (dedicated ones). Is this true, O you children of Israel?: said Jehovah.

Listen, heaven, and pay attention, earth! Jehovah (YHWH) has spoken: I raised my children and helped them grow, but they have rebelled against me.

Then Judah said to Er's brother Onan: Go sleep with your brother's widow. Fulfill your obligation to her as her husband's brother. That way your brother may have descendants.

It was appropriate that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, should bring many sons to glory, to make the Chief Agent of their salvation perfect through suffering.

Children oppress my people! Women rule over them. O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray. They confuse the direction of your paths.

They answered: Our father is Abraham. Jesus replied: If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.

You who are pregnant or nursing babies in those days will feel trouble.

Look up, look around, and watch. All of your people assemble and come to you. Your sons come from far away. Your daughters are carried in their arms.

They will not toil in vain or bear children doomed to misfortune. For they will be a people blessed by Jehovah, they and their descendants with them.

The child Samuel grew both in stature and in goodness with Jehovah and also with men.

Both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their own father.

A man can have a hundred children and live many years. If he does not enjoy prosperity and have a decent burial, a stillborn child is better off then he.

He who spares the rod (authority) hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines (instructs) him promptly.

They were born from God. It was not from blood, or the will of the flesh, or the will of man.

He took her hand and called: Maiden, arise.

The man who (carefully) brings up (pays close attention to) (nourishes) his servant from childhood will in the future have him become like his son.