Bible Verses about “homeschooling”
The Bible contains 27 verses about homeschooling across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:”
“¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
“That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.”
“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”
“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”
“¶ Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.”
“But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.”
“And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”
“My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:”
“And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.”
“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.”
“¶ Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.”
“But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned [them];”
“¶ The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind driveth away.”
“Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.”
“For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”
“And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:”
“And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”
“And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.”
“And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.”
“O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane [and] vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:”
“‹I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.›”
“For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:”
“Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace [be] with thee. Amen.”
“That the generation to come might know [them, even] the children [which] should be born; [who] should arise and declare [them] to their children:”
“That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:”
“And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation [that] set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.”