How to Raise a Child
10 passages
- Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Read it in context - Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Read it in context - Proverbs 29:15
A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
Read it in context - Deuteronomy 6:7
And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Read it in context - Proverbs 23:13–14
13Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die. 14Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.
Read it in context - Genesis 18:19
For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
Read it in context - Proverbs 13:24
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
Read it in context - Proverbs 22:15
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Read it in context - Ephesians 4:29
Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
Read it in context - Proverbs 19:18
Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.
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