Bible Verses about “how to raise a child”
The Bible contains 15 verses about how to raise a child 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.”
“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”
“¶ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.”
“Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)”
“That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.”
“¶ 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.”
“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.”
“¶ Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.”
“¶ Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.”
“For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.”