42 Bible Verses about Raising Children

Train the child {concerning his way}; even when he is old, he will not stray from it.

And you shall teach them to your children by talking about them when you sit in your house and when you travel on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.

And fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

And all your children [shall be] pupils of Yahweh, and the peace of your children [shall be] great.

And you shall recite them to your children, and you shall talk about them at [the time of] your living in your house and at [the time of] your going on the road and at [the time of] your lying down and at [the time of] your rising [up].

so that [the] next generation might know-- children [yet to] be born-- [that] they might rise up and tell their children,

That is, [it is] not the children {by human descent} [who are] children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.

being well-attested by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has shown hospitality, if she has washed the feet of the saints, if she has helped those who are oppressed, if she has devoted herself to every good work.

Behold, this third [time] I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden [to you]. For I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy; [the] rod of discipline will drive it from him.

Like arrows in [the] hand of a warrior, so [are] the children of [one's] youth.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to show profound respect for their own household first, and to pay back recompense to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

Even though they bring up their children, I will bereave them before maturity. Woe to them indeed, when I depart from them!

And do not think to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham [as] father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

"And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father [his] children, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death,

{Did not one God make them?} But a remnant of [the] spirit is his. And what does the one [God] desire? An offspring of God. {You must be attentive to} your spirit, and you must not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.

His {descendants} will be mighty in the land; [the] generation of [the] upright will be blessed.

Her children rise and consider her happy, her husband [also], and he praises her;

But she will be saved through the bearing of children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

"When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not become the wife of a {man of another family}; her brother-in-law {shall have sex with her}, and he shall take her {to himself} as wife, and he shall perform his duty as brother-in-law [with respect to] her.

I have no greater joy than this: that I hear my children are walking in the truth.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I will lift my hand up to [the] nations, and I will raise my signal to [the] peoples, and they shall bring your sons in [their] bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on [their] shoulders.

Then Manoah prayed to Yahweh and said, "Excuse me, my Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent again come to us and teach us what we should do concerning the boy who will be born."

having reasoned that God [was] able even to raise [him] from the dead, from which he received him back also as a symbol.

this [promise] God has fulfilled to our children [by] raising Jesus, as it is also written in the second psalm, 'You are my Son; today I have fathered you.'

And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father [his] child, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.

And I raised up some [of] your sons to [be] prophets and some [of] your young men to [be] Nazirites. Is it not so, O {people} of Israel? [This is] the declaration of Yahweh!

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth, for Yahweh has spoken: "I reared children and I brought [them] up, but they rebelled against me.

Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to the wife of your brother and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother."

For it was fitting for him for whom [are] all [things] and through whom [are] all [things] in bringing many sons to glory to perfect the originator of their salvation through sufferings.

My people--children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders are misleading [you], and they confuse the course of your paths.

They answered and said to him, "Abraham is our father!" Jesus said to them, "If you are children of Abraham, do the deeds of Abraham!

And woe to those {who are pregnant} and to those who are nursing [their babies] in those days!

Lift up your eyes all around and see! All of them gather; they come to you. Your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be looked after on [the] hip.

They shall not labor for nothing, and they shall not give birth to horror, for they {shall be offspring blessed by} Yahweh, and their descendants with them.

But the boy Samuel {continued to grow in stature and in favor} with Yahweh and with the people.

And the two daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.

Even if a man fathers a hundred [children] and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his heart is not satisfied with {his prosperity} and {he does not receive a proper burial}, I deem the stillborn better than him.

He who withholds his rod hates his child, but he who loves him {gives him} discipline.

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a husband, but of God.

But he took her hand [and] called, saying, "Child, get up."

He who pampers his servant from childhood, {arrogance will be his end}.