Bible Verses About Loving Your Children
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for loving your children, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,593 votes, led by Ephesians 6:4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Loving Your Children
Ephesians 6:4338 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Proverbs 22:6318 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Psalms 127:3-5287 votes
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7260 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1 Timothy 5:8244 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Psalms 27:10143 votes
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.
Proverbs 13:24131 votes
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
John 3:16129 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Colossians 3:20121 votes
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
1 Corinthians 13:13107 votes
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Matthew 6:25-34105 votes
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Proverbs 29:1595 votes
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Psalms 113:992 votes
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.
Proverbs 15:1-3379 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Philippians 2:1-479 votes
If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
Proverbs 17:674 votes
Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
John 15:1373 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Luke 18:15-1766 votes
And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
Psalms 127:360 votes
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
1 John 5:1459 votes
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
Exodus 20:1258 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
1 John 4:758 votes
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Proverbs 1:8-957 votes
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Mark 10:13-1656 votes
And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.
Ephesians 6:1-452 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
What does the Bible say about loving your children?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 6:4 on the subject of loving your children. Across 5,593 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 22:6, Psalms 127:3-5, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.