What Does the Bible Say About Children Working?

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...

Titus 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. ...

1 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ...

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 2 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 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. ...

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...

John 13:1-38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. ...

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Mark 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them.

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.”

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 7:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home;

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 2 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.

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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.

1 Timothy 5:1-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity. Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day, ...

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Deuteronomy 6:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.

30 Bible Verses about Children Working

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Titus 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 13:1-38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 7:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Timothy 5:1-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Deuteronomy 6:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Suggest a Verse

Enter a Verse Reference (e.g., John 3:16-17)

30 Bible Verses about Children Working

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 13:1-38 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Malachi 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 7:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:1-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 6:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote Helpful Not Helpful

Suggest a Verse

Enter a Verse Reference (e.g., John 3:16-17)

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Titus 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 13:1-38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 7:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Timothy 5:1-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Deuteronomy 6:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote