Bible Verses about “child rearing”
The Bible contains 26 verses about child rearing across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
“¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
“Lo, children [are] an heritage of the LORD: [and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward.”
“¶ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:”
“As arrows [are] in the hand of a mighty man; so [are] children of the youth.”
“Happy [is] the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.”
“For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”
“Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged.”
“Children, obey [your] parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.”
“¶ He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.”
“¶ The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left [to himself] bringeth his mother to shame.”
“And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”
“Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.”
“Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.”
“Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.”
“And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:”
“¶ Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.”
“¶ Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.”
“But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.”
“‹For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.›”
“If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?”
“Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?”
“For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness.”
“For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.”
“And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.”
“And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:”