What Does the Bible Say About Teaching A Child?

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 6 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 / 4 helpful votes

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Hebrews 12:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Proverbs 23:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

1 John 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

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

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 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; ...

1 Corinthians 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Luke 18:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

Proverbs 23:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.

Proverbs 20:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts.

Psalm 51:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

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.

Deuteronomy 6:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.

23 Bible Verses about Teaching A Child

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 12:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 18:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 51:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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23 Bible Verses about Teaching A Child

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Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 12:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 18:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 51:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes