21 Bible Verses About Nurturing

And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.

And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er.

Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.

I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.

But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.

My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:

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

And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.

Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: