Bible Verses about โchild rearingโ
The Bible contains 26 verses about child rearing across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โYou fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.โ
โTrain up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.โ
โBehold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.โ
โSo, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;โ
โAs arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.โ
โHappy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. A Song of Ascents.โ
โfor the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.โ
โFathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.โ
โChildren, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.โ
โOne who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.โ
โThe rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.โ
โand 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.โ
โAll 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 exercised thereby.โ
โDon't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.โ
โPunish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.โ
โThese words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart;โ
โFolly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.โ
โCorrect your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.โ
โBut if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.โ
โFor God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'โ
โIt is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?โ
โFurthermore, 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?โ
โFor they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.โ
โFor whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."โ
โ"Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.โ
โand 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;โ
