26 Bible Verses about Child Training (KJV)

Here are 26 Bible verses about child training, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Proverbs 22:6 KJV

⁶Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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Proverbs 23:13-14 KJV

¹³Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. ¹⁴Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

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Proverbs 13:24 KJV

²⁴He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

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Ephesians 6:4 KJV

⁴And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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Deuteronomy 6:6-7 KJV

⁶And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: ⁷And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

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Deuteronomy 6:7 KJV

⁷And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

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3 John 1:4 KJV

⁴I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

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Proverbs 6:20-21 KJV

²⁰My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: ²¹Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

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Proverbs 19:18 KJV

¹⁸Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

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Proverbs 3:1 KJV

¹My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

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Proverbs 6:20-22 KJV

²⁰My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: ²¹Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. ²²When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

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Psalm 127:3-5 KJV

³Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. ⁴As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. ⁵Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

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Hebrews 12:5-11 KJV

⁵And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: ⁶For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. ⁷If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? …

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Colossians 3:21 KJV

²¹Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

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Colossians 3:20 KJV

²⁰Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

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Proverbs 29:15 KJV

¹⁵The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

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Proverbs 22:15 KJV

¹⁵Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

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John 15:12-13 KJV

¹²This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. ¹³Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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Malachi 3:8-10 KJV

⁸Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. ⁹Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. ¹⁰Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, …

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Joshua 24:15 KJV

¹⁵And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

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Proverbs 29:17 KJV

¹⁷Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

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Proverbs 20:11 KJV

¹¹Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

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Romans 12:1-2 KJV

¹I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. ²And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

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Genesis 18:19 KJV

¹⁹For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

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Galatians 4:1-4 KJV

¹Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; ²But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. ³Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: ⁴But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made …

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Isaiah 4:5 KJV

⁵And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

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