15 Bible Verses About Teaching Children



  • Deuteronomy 6:7 and 11:19 place the teaching of God’s commands at home, on the road, at bedtime and on rising.
  • Deuteronomy 6:20-21 answers a child’s question about God’s laws with the story of the rescue from Egypt.
  • Psalm 78:5-6 says God commanded the ancestors to teach their children, so that even the children yet to be born would know his law and tell their own children.
  • 2 Timothy 3:15 says Timothy had known the Holy Scriptures from infancy.
  • Ephesians 6:4 and Colossians 3:21 tell fathers not to exasperate or embitter their children.

In the Bible, parents are told to teach their children the commandments at home, in the ordinary hours of the day: “Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up” (Deuteronomy 6:7). The law is to be passed from parents to children and grandchildren (Deuteronomy 4:9, Psalm 78:5-6), a father and a mother both teach (Proverbs 1:8), fathers are to raise children “in the training…

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