What Does the Bible Say About Counseling Children?

1 John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

James 1:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. ...

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...

Romans 8:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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

7 Bible Verses about Counseling Children

1 John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 1:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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1 John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 1:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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