Bible Quotes About Raising Children

Marry and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and allow your daughters to get married so that they too can have sons and daughters. Grow in number; do not dwindle away.

Jeremiah 29:6

For I, the LORD, tell you what will happen to the children who are born here in this land and to the men and women who are their mothers and fathers.

Jeremiah 16:3

‘Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat what they produce.

Jeremiah 29:5

Indeed, there is hope for your posterity. Your children will return to their own territory. I, the LORD, affirm it!

Jeremiah 31:17

I will make the children who follow one another in the line of my servant David very numerous. I will also make the Levites who minister before me very numerous. I will make them all as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sands which are on the seashore.’”

Jeremiah 33:22

Their children are always thinking about their altars and their sacred poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, set up beside the green trees on the high hills

Jeremiah 17:2

“Do not get married and do not have children here in this land.

Jeremiah 16:2

Fathers will hear the hoofbeats of the enemies’ horses, the clatter of their chariots and the rumbling of their wheels. They will not turn back to save their children because they will be paralyzed with fear.

Jeremiah 47:3

So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.

Jeremiah 18:21

You show unfailing love to thousands. But you also punish children for the sins of their parents. You are the great and powerful God whose is name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

Jeremiah 32:18