What Does the Bible Say About My Child?

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Philemon 1:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For this perhaps is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back forever,

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Proverbs 23:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Revelation 21:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

Revelation 13:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. ...

Titus 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

Titus 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

2 Corinthians 5:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Romans 12:1 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.

Romans 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

John 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.

John 19:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

John 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

John 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

Mark 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

Malachi 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”

Micah 6:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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 23:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.

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 22:15 ESV / 2 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 / 2 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 3:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

Psalm 103:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,

Psalm 19:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Exodus 21:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged.

37 Bible Verses about My Child

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Philemon 1:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 21:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 13:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 19:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Micah 6:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 19:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 103:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 19:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 21:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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37 Bible Verses about My Child

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Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Philemon 1:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 21:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 13:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 19:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Micah 6:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 19:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 103:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 19:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 21:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes