Raising Children
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 961 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 480 helpful votes
The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 412 helpful votes
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 388 helpful votes
You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your
house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
Proverbs 23:13 ESV / 348 helpful votes
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
Proverbs 29:17 ESV / 318 helpful votes
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.
Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 281 helpful votes
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 91 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.
Deuteronomy 11:19 ESV / 90 helpful votes
You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and
when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
Genesis 18:19 ESV / 86 helpful votes
For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep
the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham
what he has promised him.”
Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 82 helpful votes
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful
fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 82 helpful votes
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 80 helpful votes
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them
diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk
by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21 ESV / 59 helpful votes
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice
of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his
mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place
where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and
rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the
city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all
Israel shall hear, and fear.
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Proverbs 23:14 ESV / 46 helpful votes
If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 43 helpful votes
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the
Prophets.
1 Peter 2:20 ESV / 40 helpful votes
For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good
and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God.
Psalm 34:11 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 33 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.”
1 Timothy 3:4-5 ESV / 29 helpful votes
He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if
someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church?
Deuteronomy 6:7-9 ESV / 20 helpful votes
You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your
house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall
bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall
write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
