Bible Verses about “child training”
The Bible contains 33 verses about child training across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
“¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
“Lo, children [are] an heritage of the LORD: [and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward.”
“As arrows [are] in the hand of a mighty man; so [are] children of the youth.”
“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.”
“‹Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.›”
“Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged.”
“Children, obey [your] parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.”
“Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to receive it].”
“¶ He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.”
“‹This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.›”
“¶ The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left [to himself] bringeth his mother to shame.”
“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.”
“Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.”
“Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.”
“Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.”
“And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:”
“¶ Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.”
“But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.”
“¶ My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:”
“¶ Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.”
“Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.”
“If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?”
“Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, [even] this whole nation.”
“Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?”
“For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness.”
“For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.”
“¶ Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work [be] pure, and whether [it be] right.”
“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.”
“And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:”
“¶ My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:”
“Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and] tie them about thy neck.”
“When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and [when] thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.”