Bible Verses About Nurturing

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.

Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)

Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.

Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.

And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.

Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.