100 Bible Verses About Raising Children

And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?

And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the Lord thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.

What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.

These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.

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

That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

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

So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.

Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.

And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.

But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

These are the statutes, which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father’s house.

And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

And Ashan with her suburbs, and Beth–shemesh with her suburbs:

And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.

And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.

A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.

Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him.

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief rulers.

And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

And Moses said unto the congregation, This is the thing which the Lord commanded to be done.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

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,

Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok’s son, and Jonathan Abiathar’s son; and by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear.

Even as I sware unto thee by the Lord God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.

Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.

Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.

And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.

And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the Lord hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.

Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

In God will I praise his word: in the Lord will I praise his word.

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.

And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.

Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the Lord toward Israel.

Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;

And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.

The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.

And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.

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

Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.

And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.

And I said unto you, I am the Lord your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice.

And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

And the children of Israel enquired of the Lord, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?

And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son in law: and the days were not expired.

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the Lord.

Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.

And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.