Bible Verses about “raising a child”
The Bible contains 26 verses about raising a child 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.”
“Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.”
“Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:”
“One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.”
“The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.”
“My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:”
“From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.”
“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.”
“But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.”
“Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.”
“See that you don't despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.”
“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.”
“Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.”
“for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.”
“But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.”
“Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.”
“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?”
“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.”