42 Bible Verses about Raising Children

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

And all thy sons are taught of Jehovah, And abundant is the peace of thy sons.

and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons,

that is, the children of the flesh -- these are not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;

in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty one, So are the sons of the young men.

and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless -- without man, Surely also, woe to them, when I turn aside from them.

and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have -- Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham,

'And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

And He did not make one only, And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what is the one alone! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.

Mighty in the earth is his seed, The generation of the upright is blessed.

Her sons have risen up, and pronounce her happy, Her husband, and he praiseth her,

and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.

'When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother;

greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: 'Lo, I lift up unto nations My hand, And unto peoples I raise up Mine ensign, And they have brought thy sons in the bosom, And thy daughters on the shoulder are carried.

And Manoah maketh entreaty unto Jehovah, and saith, 'O, my Lord, the man of God whom Thou didst send, let him come in, I pray thee, again unto us, and direct us what we do to the youth who is born.'

reckoning that even out of the dead God is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did receive him.

God hath in full completed this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as also in the second Psalm it hath been written, My Son thou art -- I to-day have begotten thee.

'And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

And I raise of your sons for prophets, And of your choice ones for Nazarites, Is not this true, O sons of Israel? An affirmation of Jehovah.

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, For Jehovah hath spoken: Sons I have nourished and brought up, And they -- they transgressed against Me.

And Judah saith to Onan, 'Go in unto the wife of thy brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother;'

For it was becoming to Him, because of whom are the all things, and through whom are the all things, many sons to glory bringing, the author of their salvation through sufferings to make perfect,

My people -- its exactors are sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.

They answered and said to him, 'Our father is Abraham;' Jesus saith to them, 'If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck in those days;

Lift up round about thine eyes and see, All of them have been gathered, they have come to thee, Thy sons from afar do come, And thy daughters on the side are supported.

They labour not for a vain thing, Nor do they bring forth for trouble, For the seed of the blessed of Jehovah are they, And their offspring with them.

And the youth Samuel is going on and growing up, and is good both with Jehovah, and also with men.

And the two daughters of Lot conceive from their father,

If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, 'Better than he is the untimely birth.'

Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

who -- not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but -- of God were begotten.

and he having put all forth without, and having taken hold of her hand, called, saying, 'Child, arise;'

Whoso is bringing up his servant delicately, from youth, At his latter end also he is continuator.