How to Train your Children
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 - Deuteronomy 11:19
Teach them to your children, speaking about 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 29:15
A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
Read it in context - Proverbs 29:17
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will bring delight to your soul.
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 - Psalm 78:5–7
5For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children, 6that the coming generation would know them— even children yet to be born— to arise and tell their own children 7that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.
Read it in context - Psalm 127:3
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
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 - Colossians 3:21
Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.
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