Bible Verses about “child training”
The Bible contains 33 verses about child training across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
“Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.”
“As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.”
“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. A Song of Ascents.”
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
“Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.”
“Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.”
“Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says Yahweh of Armies, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.”
“One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.”
“"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.”
“The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.”
“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.”
“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 exercised thereby.”
“Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.”
“Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.”
“These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart;”
“Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.”
“But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.”
“My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:”
“Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.”
“Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.”
“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?”
“You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.”
“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?”
“For 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.”
“For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."”
“Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.”
“I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.”
“and 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;”
“My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.”
“Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.”
“When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.”