15 Important Bible Verses About Teaching Children – Teach Our Children to Follow Christ

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

— Proverbs 22:6

Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.

— Proverbs 23:13

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

— Proverbs 29:15

Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long on the land which the LORD your God gives you.

— Exodus 20:12

So likewise you, except you utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for you shall speak into the air.

— 1 Corinthians 14:9

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?

— Hebrews 12:7

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherishes her children:

— 1 Thessalonians 2:7

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

— Colossians 3:21

And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

— Ephesians 6:4

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

— Ephesians 6:1

Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them which are exercised thereby.

— Hebrews 12:11

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

— 1 John 3:18

But above all things, my brothers, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yes be yes; and your no, no; lest you fall into condemnation.

— James 5:12

But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope when I was on my mother’s breasts. I was cast on you from the womb: you are my God from my mother’s belly.

— Psalm 22:9-10

See, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

— Psalm 127:3