Parenting & Children Bible Quiz — Questions and Answers
All 10 questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the King James Version reference. Use this page as a study guide, an answer key, or a quick review sheet.
Q1.Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, what?
- A. He will not depart from it ✓
- B. He will be honored
- C. He will be rich
- D. He will be wise
Answer: He will not depart from it
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6)
Q2.What does Paul tell fathers not to do?
- A. Provoke not your children to wrath ✓
- B. Spare the rod
- C. Hide the law
- D. Speak softly only
Answer: Provoke not your children to wrath
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. (Ephesians 6:4)
Q3.What are children to do?
- A. Obey your parents in the Lord ✓
- B. Follow their friends
- C. Choose their own way
- D. Trust their hearts
Answer: Obey your parents in the Lord
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. (Ephesians 6:1)
Q4.What is the first commandment with promise?
- A. Honour thy father and mother ✓
- B. Thou shalt not steal
- C. Thou shalt not kill
- D. Remember the sabbath
Answer: Honour thy father and mother
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. (Ephesians 6:2-3)
Q5.What are children called in Psalm 127?
- A. An heritage of the LORD ✓
- B. A reward of foolishness
- C. A burden
- D. A test
Answer: An heritage of the LORD
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. (Psalm 127:3)
Q6.What is the rod of correction said to do?
- A. Drive foolishness far from him ✓
- B. Harm the child
- C. Profit nothing
- D. Be hated by God
Answer: Drive foolishness far from him
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. (Proverbs 22:15)
Q7.What did Moses tell Israel to teach their children?
- A. These words... thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children ✓
- B. Their own ways
- C. The customs of the nations
- D. The wisdom of Egypt
Answer: These words... thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
Q8.From whom did Timothy learn the holy scriptures as a child?
- A. His grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice ✓
- B. Paul only
- C. Silas
- D. The priests
Answer: His grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice
When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice. (2 Timothy 1:5)
Q9.How long had Timothy known the scriptures?
- A. From a child ✓
- B. From his youth
- C. From his calling
- D. From his ordination
Answer: From a child
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. (2 Timothy 3:15)
Q10.What did Jesus say when His disciples rebuked those bringing children?
- A. Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not ✓
- B. Send them away
- C. Wait till they are grown
- D. Bring only the boys
Answer: Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not
But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 19:14)