13 Bible Verses about Training Children

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

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

Gather the people, men and women and the little ones, and your stranger who is within your gates, so that they may hear and that they may learn and fear Jehovah your God, and be careful to do all the words of this Law, and that their sons who have not known may hear and learn to fear Jehovah your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over Jordan to possess it.

There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua did not read before all the congregation of Israel, with the women and the little ones, and the strangers that walked among them.

And Joash did the right in the sight of Jehovah all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

Come, listen to me, my sons; I will teach you the fear of Jehovah.

For He set up a testimony in Jacob, and ordered a Law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should teach them to their sons;

My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments;

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons, for what son is he whom the father does not chasten?

Do not withhold correction from a boy, for if you beat him with the rod, he will not die.

For I know him, that he will command his sons and his house after him, and they shall keep the way of Jehovah, to do justice and judgment, that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham that which He has spoken of him.

And you shall carefully teach them to your sons, 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.

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