Bible Verses About Raising Children

Ephesians 6:1-41 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: 3 “that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.” 4 You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Related Topics: Anger Children Family Mother's Day Mothers
Deuteronomy 6:4-94 Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. 5 You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. 6 These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; 7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, 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. 8 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates. Related Topics: Family Love Mothers Strength Worship
Proverbs 29:15-1715 The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother. 16 When the wicked increase, sin increases; but the righteous will see their downfall. 17 Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul. Related Topics: Children Kids Mother's Day Mothers Wisdom
Proverbs 22:5-65 Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked; whoever guards his soul stays from them. 6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Related Topics: Children Family Mother's Day Mothers Relationships
Hebrews 12:5-115 You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; 6 for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.” 7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children. 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. 11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Related Topics: Children God's Love Kids Peace Trust
Proverbs 23:13-1413 Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. 14 Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol. Related Topics: Honoring Your Parents Kids Parenting Teaching Children
Psalm 127:3-53 Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. 4 As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth. 5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. Related Topics: Abortion Children Family Mother's Day Mothers
Proverbs 13:2424 One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him. Related Topics: Father's Day Fathers Kids Parenting Youth
Proverbs 22:1515 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child; the rod of discipline drives it far from him. Related Topics: Children Discipline Kids Parenting Teaching Children
Proverbs 1:8-198 My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching; 9 for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck. 10 My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent. 11 If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lie in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause. 12 Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit. 13 We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder. 14 You shall cast your lot among us. We’ll all have one purse”— 15 my son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path, 16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood. 17 For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird; 18 but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners. Related Topics: Children Kids Mother's Day Mothers Relationships
Colossians 3:2121 Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged. Related Topics: Anger Discouragement Teaching Children
Proverbs 3:11-1211 My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction; 12 for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights. Related Topics: Father's Day Fathers God's Love Learning Parenting
Proverbs 19:1818 Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death. Related Topics: Dads Discipline Father's Day Kids Teaching Children
Deuteronomy 11:18-2118 Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. 19 You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 20 You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates; 21 that your days and your children’s days may be multiplied in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth. Related Topics: Babies Education Learning Teachers Teaching
Exodus 20:1212 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. Related Topics: Children Family Mother's Day Mothers Women
Exodus 21:15-1715 “Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death. 16 “Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 17 “Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. Related Topics: Children Father's Day Kids Mothers
Mark 10:13-1913 They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. 14 But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these. 15 Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.” 16 He took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them. 17 As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?” 18 Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except one—God. 19 You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’” Related Topics: Adultery Babies Children Kids Teaching Children
Deuteronomy 21:18-2118 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them, 19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place. 20 They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” 21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear. Related Topics: Alcohol Drinking Father's Day Mother's Day Mothers
Deuteronomy 4:9-109 Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children— 10 the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.” Related Topics: Education Grandparents Learning Motherly Love School
Ephesians 5:1-21 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance. Related Topics: God's Love Kids Love Loving Others Sanctification
Proverbs 23:24-2624 The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him. 25 Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice! 26 My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways. Related Topics: Joy Kids Rejoicing
Colossians 3:2020 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord. Related Topics: Honoring Your Parents Obedience Teaching Children Youth
Deuteronomy 6:20-2520 When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?” 21 then you shall tell your son, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; 22 and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes; 23 and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers. 24 Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today. 25 It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.” Related Topics: Righteousness The Mind
2 Corinthians 12:1414 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children. Related Topics: Parenting
Titus 2:1-81 But say the things which fit sound doctrine, 2 that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance, 3 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good, 4 that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed. 6 Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded. 7 In all things show yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, show integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility, 8 and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us. Related Topics: Lying Mother's Day Mothers Patience Women
Leviticus 19:33 “‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God. Related Topics: Dads Father's Day Fathers Respect The Sabbath
Deuteronomy 5:1616 “Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you, that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. Related Topics: Father's Day Grandparents Kids Mothers Youth
Proverbs 10:11 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother. Related Topics: Babies Father's Day Kids Mother's Day Mothers
Proverbs 13:11 A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke. Related Topics: Discipline Father's Day Honoring Your Parents Listening
Proverbs 3:1-61 My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, 2 for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace. 3 Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man. 5 Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Related Topics: Anxiety Children Love Stress Worry
Psalm 103:1313 Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him. Related Topics: Father's Day Fathers Fear Fear and Worry Parenting
3 John 1:1-41 The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth. 2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers. 3 For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth. 4 I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth. Related Topics: Father's Day Healing Joy Kids Mother's Day
Proverbs 17:66 Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children is their parents. Related Topics: Family Father's Day Kids Mother's Day Mothers
Proverbs 23:2222 Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old. Related Topics: Grandparents Honoring Your Parents Obedience Parenting Youth
Proverbs 15:55 A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence. Related Topics: Father's Day Fathers Fools Kids
Deuteronomy 8:55 You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you. Related Topics: Dads Father's Day Fathers Knowing God
Proverbs 6:2020 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. Related Topics: Family Fathers Kids Youth
1 Timothy 3:2-52 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; 3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; 4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence; 5 (for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?) Related Topics: Alcohol Education Family Father's Day Greed
Matthew 15:4-64 For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’ 5 But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, “Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,” 6 he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition. Related Topics: Dads Fathers Motherly Love
Proverbs 4:1-51 Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding; 2 for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law. 3 For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother. 4 He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live. 5 Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth. Related Topics: Father's Day Fathers Teaching Teaching Children Understanding
Luke 11:11-1311 “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he? 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?” Related Topics: Generosity Kids Spiritual Gifts
Genesis 18:1919 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.” Related Topics: Dads Learning Teaching Children
1 Timothy 3:1212 Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. Related Topics: Husbands Marriage
Matthew 7:9-119 Or who is there among you who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! Related Topics: Dads Fathers Giving to Others God Provides Sons
Mark 7:10-1310 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’ 11 But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban,”’” that is to say, given to God, 12 “then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, 13 making void the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. You do many things like this.” Related Topics: Father's Day
Luke 14:2626 “If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple. Related Topics: Hate Love Love and Relationships Loving Others Missions
Isaiah 54:1313 All your children will be taught by Yahweh, and your children’s peace will be great. Related Topics: Babies Family Love Loving Your Children Teaching Children
Malachi 2:1515 Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. Related Topics: Family Unity
1 Timothy 5:88 But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. Related Topics: Family Gambling Helping Others Relationships Work
Luke 2:51-5251 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men. Related Topics: Being Humble Growth Motherly Love Mothers Wisdom
Matthew 18:1-61 In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” 2 Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them 3 and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. 4 Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. 5 Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me, 6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea. Related Topics: Adoption Children Humility Kids Youth
Proverbs 4:10-1110 Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many. 11 I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.
Proverbs 1:77 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction. Related Topics: Fear Fear of the Lord Knowledge Learning Overcoming Fear
Psalm 34:1111 Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh. Related Topics: Kids Listening Teaching Children
Isaiah 38:1919 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.
Psalm 128:3-63 Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table. 4 Behold, this is how the man who fears Yahweh is blessed. 5 May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life. 6 Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel. Related Topics: Babies Family Father's Day Kids Mothers
Jeremiah 1:5-75 “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.” 6 Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.” 7 But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you. Related Topics: Babies Identity Knowledge Leadership
Hebrews 11:2323 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment. Related Topics: Government
Psalm 139:13-1613 For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well. 15 My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them. Related Topics: Abortion Beauty God's Sovereignty Mother's Day Mothers
1 Corinthians 13:1-71 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, 5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Related Topics: Anger Faith Forgiveness Love
John 16:2121 A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world. Related Topics: Babies Kids Pregnancy
1 Timothy 5:44 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God. Related Topics: Grandparents Kids Youth
Proverbs 1:1-61 The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: 2 to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding; 3 to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; 4 to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man— 5 that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel; 6 to understand a proverb and parables, the words and riddles of the wise. Related Topics: Discernment Learning Teaching
Luke 15:2020 “He arose and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran, fell on his neck, and kissed him. Related Topics: Compassion Love and Compassion Sympathy

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