42 Bible Verses about Raising Children

Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

All your children will be followers of the Lord, and your children will enjoy great prosperity.

and you must teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.

so that the next generation, children yet to be born, might know about them. They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.

This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.

and has a reputation for good works: as one who has raised children, practiced hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, helped those in distress -- as one who has exhibited all kinds of good works.

Look, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not want your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

Sons born during one's youth are like arrows in a warrior's hand.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn to fulfill their duty toward their own household and so repay their parents what is owed them. For this is what pleases God.

Even if they raise their children, I will take away every last one of them. Woe to them! For I will turn away from them.

and don't think you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

"Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.

His descendants will be powerful on the earth; the godly will be blessed.

Her children rise up and call her blessed, her husband also praises her:

But she will be delivered through childbearing, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man's wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband's brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.

I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living according to the truth.

This is what the sovereign Lord says: "Look I will raise my hand to the nations; I will raise my signal flag to the peoples. They will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders.

Manoah prayed to the Lord, "Please, Lord, allow the man sent from God to visit us again, so he can teach us how we should raise the child who will be born."

and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

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

Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

I made some of your sons prophets and some of your young men Nazirites. Is this not true, you Israelites?" The Lord is speaking!

Listen, O heavens, pay attention, O earth! For the Lord speaks: "I raised children, I brought them up, but they have rebelled against me!

Then Judah said to Onan, "Have sexual relations with your brother's wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her so that you may raise up a descendant for your brother."

For it was fitting for him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Oppressors treat my people cruelly; creditors rule over them. My people's leaders mislead them; they give you confusing directions.

They answered him, "Abraham is our father!" Jesus replied, "If you are Abraham's children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!

Look all around you! They all gather and come to you -- your sons come from far away and your daughters are escorted by guardians.

They will not work in vain, or give birth to children that will experience disaster. For the Lord will bless their children and their descendants.

Now the boy Samuel was growing up and finding favor both with the Lord and with people.

In this way both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father.

Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years -- even if he lives a long, long time, but cannot enjoy his prosperity -- even if he were to live forever -- I would say, "A stillborn child is better off than he is!"

The one who spares his rod hates his child, but the one who loves his child is diligent in disciplining him.

-- children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband's decision, but by God.

But Jesus gently took her by the hand and said, "Child, get up."

If someone pampers his servant from youth, he will be a weakling in the end.