What Does the Bible Say About Your Child?

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 19:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Hebrews 12:5-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? ...

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

John 8:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Luke 15:11-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. ...

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Proverbs 29:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.

Proverbs 23:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

17 Bible Verses about Your Child

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 19:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 12:5-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 8:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 15:11-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 19:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 12:5-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 8:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 15:11-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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