Bible Verses About How to Train Your Children
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for how to train your children, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,947 votes, led by Proverbs 22:6. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about How to Train Your Children
Proverbs 22:6257 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Ephesians 6:4168 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 11:19139 votes
And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Proverbs 29:15105 votes
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Proverbs 29:1797 votes
Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
Proverbs 13:2481 votes
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Proverbs 22:1577 votes
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Colossians 3:2176 votes
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Psalms 78:5-775 votes
For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
Psalms 127:374 votes
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Psalms 127:3-565 votes
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Ephesians 6:261 votes
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
2 Timothy 3:1661 votes
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Ephesians 6:1-457 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Proverbs 23:13-1447 votes
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Ephesians 6:146 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Titus 2:446 votes
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Psalms 34:1144 votes
Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Acts 5:2943 votes
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Deuteronomy 4:939 votes
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;
2 Timothy 2:1539 votes
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Hebrews 12:5-1136 votes
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:
Ephesians 6:335 votes
That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Hebrews 12:1135 votes
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.
Deuteronomy 6:532 votes
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
What does the Bible say about how to train your children?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 22:6 on the subject of how to train your children. Across 2,947 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 6:4, Deuteronomy 11:19, Proverbs 29:15. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.