17 Bible Verses about Raising Children

And fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up with Christian discipline and instruction.

This means that it is not the children born in the course of nature who are God's Children, but it is the children born in fulfillment of the Promise who are to be regarded as Abraham's descendants.

and be well spoken of for her kind actions. She should have brought up children, have shown hospitality to strangers, have washed the feet of her fellow Christians, have relieved those who were in distress, and devoted herself to every kind of good action.

Remember, this is the third time that I have made every preparation to come to see you, and I shall refuse to be a burden to you; I want, not your money, but you. It is not the duty of children to put by for their parents, but of parents to put by for their children.

but, if a widow has children or grand-children, let them learn to show proper regard for the members of their own family first, and to make some return to their parents; for that is pleasing in God's sight.

And do not think that you can say among yourselves 'Abraham is our ancestor,' for I tell you that out of these very stones God is able to raise descendants for Abraham!

Brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child; and children will turn against their parents, and cause them to be put to death;

But women will find their salvation in motherhood, if they never abandon faith, love, or holiness, and behave with modesty.

Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to hear from time to time that the lives of my Children are guided by the Truth.

For he argued that God was able even to raise a man from the dead--and indeed, figuratively speaking, Abraham did receive Isaac back from the dead.

That our children have had this promise completely fulfilled to them by God, by his raising Jesus. That is just what is said in the second Psalm--'Thou art my Son; this day I have become thy Father.'

Brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child; and children will turn against their parents, and cause them to be put to death;

It was, indeed, fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, should, when leading many sons to glory, make the author of their Salvation perfect through suffering.

"Our father is Abraham," was their answer. "If you are Abraham's children," replied Jesus, "do what Abraham did.

And alas for the women that are with child, and for those that are nursing infants in those days!

For not to natural conception, nor to human instincts, nor to will of man did they owe the new Life, but to God.

But, taking her by the hand, Jesus said in a loud voice: "Child, rise!"