Scripture emphasizes the importance of raising children in a way that honors God and prepares them for a life of faith. According to Proverbs 22:6, training children from a young age sets them on a path that will guide them for the rest of their lives. Ephesians 6:4 encourages fathers to bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, while Deuteronomy 11:19 instructs parents to teach their children about God's commands and ways. Proverbs 29:15 and 29:17 also highlight the role of discipline and correction in shaping a child's character, emphasizing the need for parents to balance love and guidance with firmness and instruction.
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Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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.
A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will bring delight to your soul.
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the coming generation would know them— even children yet to be born— to arise and tell their own children that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate.
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.