Bible Verses About Children

The Bible is full of verses about how to raise children. Parents are instructed to protect, love and discipline their children. Children are exhorted to honor and respect their parents. Jesus loves and welcomes children. And He says that we must become like children to enter His kingdom.

We hope that the collection of verses below will be a great help to you as you study this topic. (All verses are taken from the New American Standard Version of the Bible.)

What the Bible Says About Children

Scripture speaks highly of children and calls them a gift and a reward.

Behold, children are a gift of the Lord,
The fruit of the womb is a reward. – Psalms 127:3

But Jesus said, “Leave the children alone, and do not forbid them to come to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” – Matthew 19:14

What the Bible Says About Disciplining Children

The Bible makes it clear that if we really love our children, we will discipline and instruct them.

Do not withhold discipline from a child;
Though you strike him with the rod, he will not die.
You shall strike him with the rod
And rescue his soul from Sheol. – Proverbs 23:13-14

He who withholds his rod hates his son,
But he who loves him disciplines him diligently. – Proverbs 13:24

All your sons will be taught by the Lord;
And the well-being of your sons will be great. – Isaiah 54:13

How To Raise Your Children To Follow the Lord

What the Bible Say About Being God’s Children

One of the most profound realities of the Christian life is that God adopts everyone who believes in Jesus as His own child.

For you are all sons and daughters of God through faith in Christ Jesus. – Galatians 3:26

And I will be a father to you,
And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,”
Says the Lord Almighty. – 2 Corinthians 6:18

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name, – John 1:12

Every Mention of the Word “Children” in the Bible

We’ve included all mentions of the word “children” in the NASB below. We hope reflecting on these verses will deepen your knowledge of God’s Word!

Bible Verses About Children in Genesis

To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you shall deliver children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he shall rule over you.” – Genesis 3:16

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of mankind, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. – Genesis 6:4

Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the older brother of Japheth, children were born. – Genesis 10:21

So Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Please have relations with my slave woman; perhaps I will obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. – Genesis 16:2

For I have chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken about him.” – Genesis 18:19

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his female slaves, so that they gave birth to children. – Genesis 20:17

And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son in his old age.” – Genesis 21:7

Now it came about after these things, that Abraham was told, saying, “Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor: – Genesis 22:20

Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was unable to have children; and the Lord answered him, and his wife Rebekah conceived. – Genesis 25:21

But the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If it is so, why am I in this condition?” So she went to inquire of the Lord. – Genesis 25:22

Now the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, and He opened her womb, but Rachel was unable to have children. – Genesis 29:31

And she conceived again and gave birth to a son, and said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children. – Genesis 29:35

Now when Rachel saw that she had not borne Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister; and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I am going to die.” – Genesis 30:1

When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. – Genesis 30:9

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you yourself know my service which I have rendered you.” – Genesis 30:26

Surely all the wealth which God has taken away from our father belongs to us and our children; now then, do whatever God has told you.” – Genesis 31:16

Then Jacob stood up and put his children and his wives on camels; – Genesis 31:17

Then Laban replied to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my grandchildren, the flocks are my flocks, and everything that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these daughters of mine or to their children to whom they have given birth? – Genesis 31:43

Save me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, that he will come and attack me and the mothers with the children. – Genesis 32:11

Now he got up that same night and took his two wives, his two female slaves, and his eleven children, and crossed the shallow place of the Jabbok. – Genesis 32:22

Then Jacob raised his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel, and the two slave women. – Genesis 33:1

He put the slave women and their children in front, and Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last. – Genesis 33:2

He raised his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, “Who are these with you?” So he said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.” – Genesis 33:5

Then the slave women came forward with their children, and they bowed down. – Genesis 33:6

And Leah likewise came forward with her children, and they bowed down; and afterward Joseph came forward with Rachel, and they bowed down. – Genesis 33:7

But he said to him, “My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds that are nursing are a matter of concern to me. And if they are driven hard just one day, all the flocks will die. – Genesis 33:13

Please let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will proceed at my leisure, at the pace of the cattle that are ahead of me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.” – Genesis 33:14

And these are the children of Anah: Dishon, and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah. – Genesis 36:25

For you shall live in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your grandchildren, and your flocks and your herds and all that you have. – Genesis 45:10

But your children that you have fathered after them shall be yours; they shall be called by the names of their brothers in their inheritance. – Genesis 48:6

And Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face, and behold, God has let me see your children as well!” – Genesis 48:11

Bible Verses About Children in Exodus

When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the boy was crying. And she had pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.” – Exodus 2:6

And you shall keep this event as an ordinance for you and your children forever. – Exodus 12:24

And when your children say to you, ‘What does this rite mean to you?’ – Exodus 12:26

Now the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, aside from children. – Exodus 12:37

But the people were thirsty for water there; and they grumbled against Moses and said, “Why is it that you have you brought us up from Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?” – Exodus 17:3

You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, inflicting the punishment of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, – Exodus 20:5

If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall leave alone. – Exodus 21:4

But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not leave as a free man,’ – Exodus 21:5

and My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless. – Exodus 22:24

There will be no one miscarrying or unable to have children in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days. – Exodus 23:26

who keeps faithfulness for thousands, who forgives wrongdoing, violation of His Law, and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, inflicting the punishment of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” – Exodus 34:7

Bible Verses About Children in Leviticus

You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am the Lord. – Leviticus 18:21

“You shall also say to the sons of Israel: ‘Anyone from the sons of Israel or from the strangers residing in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech, shall certainly be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones. – Leviticus 20:2

I will also set My face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given some of his children to Molech, so as to defile My sanctuary and to profane My holy name. – Leviticus 20:3

If the people of the land, however, should ever disregard that man when he gives any of his children to Molech, so as not to put him to death, – Leviticus 20:4

so that he will not profane his children among his people; for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.’” – Leviticus 21:15

I will also let loose among you the animals of the field, which will deprive you of your children and eliminate your cattle, and reduce your number so that your roads become deserted. – Leviticus 26:22

Bible Verses About Children in Numbers

But Nadab and Abihu died in the presence of the Lord when they offered strange fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai; and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests in the lifetime of their father Aaron. – Numbers 3:4

But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be immune and conceive children. – Numbers 5:28

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abundant in mercy, forgiving wrongdoing and violation of His Law; but He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, inflicting the punishment of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.’ – Numbers 14:18

Your children, however, whom you said would become plunder—I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected. – Numbers 14:31

Bible Verses About Children in Deuteronomy

So we captured all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed the men, women, and children of every city. We left no survivor. – Deuteronomy 2:34

We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city. – Deuteronomy 3:6

Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me, that I may have them hear My words so that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’ – Deuteronomy 4:10

“When you father children and have grandchildren, and you grow old in the land, and you act corruptly, and make an idol in the form of anything, and do what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger, – Deuteronomy 4:25

So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am giving you today, so that it may go well for you and for your children after you, and that you may live long on the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time.” – Deuteronomy 4:40

You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, inflicting the punishment of the fathers on the children, even on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, – Deuteronomy 5:9

However, the women, the children, the animals, and everything that is in the city, all of its spoils, you shall take as plunder for yourself; and you shall use the spoils of your enemies which the Lord your God has given you. – Deuteronomy 20:14

“Blessed will be the children of your womb, the produce of your ground, and the offspring of your animals: the newborn of your herd and the young of your flock. – Deuteronomy 28:4

And the Lord will give you more than enough prosperity, in the children of your womb, in the offspring of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. – Deuteronomy 28:11

“Cursed will be the children of your womb, the produce of your ground, the newborn of your herd, and the offspring of your flock. – Deuteronomy 28:18

The man who is refined and very delicate among you will be hostile toward his brother, toward the wife he cherishes, and toward the rest of his children who are left, – Deuteronomy 28:54

so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing else left, during the siege and the hardship by which your enemy will oppress you in all your towns. – Deuteronomy 28:55

and toward her afterbirth that comes from between her legs, and toward her children to whom she gives birth, because she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the hardship with which your enemy will oppress you in your towns. – Deuteronomy 28:57

Then the Lord your God will prosper you abundantly in every work of your hand, in the children of your womb, the offspring of your cattle, and in the produce of your ground, for the Lord will again rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced over your fathers; – Deuteronomy 30:9

Assemble the people, the men, the women, the children, and the stranger who is in your town, so that they may hear and learn and fear the Lord your God, and be careful to follow all the words of this Law. – Deuteronomy 31:12

And their children, who have not known, will hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live on the land which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.” – Deuteronomy 31:13

They have acted corruptly against Him, They are not His children, because of their defect; But are a perverse and crooked generation. – Deuteronomy 32:5

Bible Verses About Children in Joshua

This shall be a sign among you; when your children ask later, saying, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’ – Joshua 4:6

And he said to the sons of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What are these stones?’ – Joshua 4:21

then you shall inform your children, saying, ‘Israel crossed this Jordan on dry ground.’ – Joshua 4:22

So their children whom He raised up in their place, Joshua circumcised; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them along the way. – Joshua 5:7

So Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘The land on which your foot has walked shall certainly be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have followed the Lord my God fully.’ – Joshua 14:9

And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak. – Joshua 15:14

Bible Verses About Children in Judges

And there was a man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was infertile and had not given birth to any children. – Judges 13:2

Then they turned and left, and put the children, the livestock, and the valuables in front of them. – Judges 18:21

And the congregation sent twelve thousand of the valiant warriors there, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, along with the women and the children. – Judges 21:10

Bible Verses About Children in 1 Samuel

And he had two wives: the name of one was Hannah and the name of the other Peninnah; and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. – 1 Samuel 1:2

Those who were full hire themselves out for bread, But those who were hungry cease to be hungry. Even the infertile woman gives birth to seven, But she who has many children languishes. – 1 Samuel 2:5

Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, “May the Lord give you children from this woman in place of the one she requested of the Lord.” And they went to their own home. – 1 Samuel 2:20

He also struck Nob the city of the priests with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and infants; he also struck oxen, donkeys, and sheep with the edge of the sword. – 1 Samuel 22:19

Then all the wicked and worthless men among those who went with David said, “Since they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoils that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, so that they may lead them away and leave.” – 1 Samuel 30:22

Bible Verses About Children in 2 Samuel

But the poor man had nothing at all except one little ewe lamb Which he bought and nurtured; And it grew up together with him and his children. It would eat scraps from him and drink from his cup and lie in his lap, And was like a daughter to him. – 2 Samuel 12:3

Bible Verses About Children in 1 Kings

‘Your silver and your gold are mine; your most beautiful wives and children are also mine.’” – 1 Kings 20:3

Then the messengers returned and said, “Ben-hadad says this: ‘I did indeed send word to you, saying, “You shall give me your silver, your gold, your wives, and your children”; – 1 Kings 20:5

Then the king of Israel summoned all the elders of the land and said, “Please be aware and see that this man is looking for trouble; for he sent me his demand for my wives, my children, my silver, and my gold, and I did not refuse him.” – 1 Kings 20:7

Bible Verses About Children in 2 Kings

Now a woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.” – 2 Kings 4:1

Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the officials of Jezreel, the elders, and to the guardians of the children of Ahab, saying, – 2 Kings 10:1

And the one who was in charge of the household, and the one who was in charge of the city, and the elders, and the guardians of the children, sent word to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and everything that you tell us we will do. We will not appoint any man king; do what is good in your sight.” – 2 Kings 10:5

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and eliminated all the royal children. – 2 Kings 11:1

and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites were burning their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. – 2 Kings 17:31

So while these nations feared the Lord, they also served their idols; their children likewise and their grandchildren, just as their fathers did, they do to this day.- 2 Kings 17:41

And they said to him, “This is what Hezekiah says: ‘This day is a day of distress, rebuke, and humiliation; for children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them. – 2 Kings 19:3

Bible Verses About Children in 1 Chronicles

These were the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four by Bath-shua the daughter of Ammiel; – 1 Chronicles 3:5

The children of Amram were Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. –
1 Chronicles 6:3

Shaharaim fathered children in the country of Moab after he had sent his wives Hushim and Baara away. – 1 Chronicles 8:8

These are the names of the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, – 1 Chronicles 14:4

Bible Verses About Children in 2 Chronicles

All Judah was standing before the Lord, with their infants, their wives, and their children. – 2 Chronicles 20:13

Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rose and eliminated all the royal children of the house of Judah. – 2 Chronicles 22:10

However, he did not put their children to death, but did as it is written in the Law in the Book of Moses, which the Lord commanded, saying, “Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, nor sons be put to death for fathers; but each shall be put to death for his own sin.” – 2 Chronicles 25:4

The genealogical enrollment included all their little children, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, for the whole assembly, for they consecrated themselves faithfully in holiness. –
2 Chronicles 31:18

Bible Verses About Children in Ezra

Now while Ezra was praying and making confession, weeping and prostrating himself before the house of God, a very large assembly, men, women, and children, gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept greatly. – Ezra 10:1

So now let’s make a covenant with our God to send away all the wives and their children, following the counsel of my lord and of those who fear the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the Law. – Ezra 10:3

All of these men had married foreign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children. – Ezra 10:44

Bible Verses About Children in Nehemiah

And now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our children like their children. Yet behold, we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters are forced into bondage already, and we are helpless because our fields and vineyards belong to others.” – Nehemiah 5:5

and on that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced because God had given them great joy, and the women and children rejoiced as well, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard from far away. – Nehemiah 12:43

As for their children, half spoke in the language of Ashdod, and none of them knew how to speak the language of Judah, but only the language of his own people. – Nehemiah 13:24

Bible Verses About Children in Esther

Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces to annihilate, kill, and destroy all the Jews, both young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to seize their possessions as plunder. – Esther 3:13

In the letters the king granted the Jews who were in each and every city the right to assemble and to defend their lives, to destroy, kill, and eliminate the entire army of any people or province which was going to attack them, including children and women, and to plunder their spoils, – Esther 8:11

Bible Verses About Children in Job

He who informs against friends for a share of the spoils, The eyes of his children also will perish. – Job 17:5

Even young children despise me; I stand up and they speak against me. – Job 19:18

They send out their boys like the flock, And their children dance. – Job 21:11

Behold, like wild donkeys in the wilderness They go out scavenging for food in their activity, As bread for their children in the desert. – Job 24:5

When the Almighty was still with me, And my children were around me; – Job 29:5

Bible Verses About Children in Psalm

From people by Your hand, Lord, From people of the world, whose portion is in this life, And whose belly You fill with Your treasure; They are satisfied with children, And leave their abundance to their babies. – Psalm 17:14

You will eliminate their descendants from the earth, And their children from among the sons of mankind. – Psalm 21:10

Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord. –
Psalm 34:11

May he vindicate the afflicted of the people, Save the children of the needy, And crush the oppressor. – Psalm 72:4

If I had said, “I will speak this way,” Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children. – Psalm 73:15

We will not conceal them from their children, But we will tell the generation to come the praises of the Lord, And His power and His wondrous works that He has done. – Psalm 78:4

For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers That they were to teach them to their children, – Psalm 78:5

So that the generation to come would know, the children yet to be born, That they would arise and tell them to their children, – Psalm 78:6

Assyria also has joined them; They have become a help to the children of Lot. Selah – Psalm 83:8

Let Your work appear to Your servants And Your majesty to their children. – Psalm 90:16

The children of Your servants will continue, And their descendants will be established before You.” – Psalm 102:28

Just as a father has compassion on his children, So the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him. – Psalm 103:13

But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting for those who fear Him, And His justice to the children’s children, – Psalm 103:17

May his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow. – Psalm 109:9

May his children wander about and beg; And may they seek sustenance far from their ruined homes. – Psalm 109:10

May there be none to extend kindness to him, Nor any to be gracious to his fatherless children. – Psalm 109:12

He has the infertile woman live in the house As a joyful mother of children. Praise the Lord! – Psalm 113:9

May the Lord increase you, You and your children. -Psalm 115:14

Behold, children are a gift of the Lord, The fruit of the womb is a reward. – Psalm 127:3

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one’s youth. – Psalm 127:4

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine Within your house, Your children like olive plants Around your table. – Psalm 128:3

Indeed, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel! – Psalm 128:6

Blessed will be one who seizes and dashes your children Against the rock. – Psalm 137:9

Both young men and virgins; Old men and children. – Psalm 148:12

Bible Verses About Children in Proverbs

“Now then, my children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways. – Proverbs 8:32

A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous. – Proverbs 13:22

Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them. – Proverbs 13:24

In the fear of the Lord there is strong confidence, And his children will have refuge. – Proverbs 14:26

children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children. – Proverbs 17:6

Discipline your children, for in that there is hope; do not be a willing party to their death. – Proverbs 19:18

The righteous lead blameless lives; blessed are their children after them.
– Proverbs 20:7

Even small children are known by their actions, so is their conduct really pure and upright? – Proverbs 20:11

Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it. – Proverbs 22:6

Discipline your children, and they will give you peace; they will bring you the delights you desire. – Proverbs 29:17

Her children rise up and bless her; Her husband also, and he praises her, saying: – Proverbs 31:28

Bible Verses About Children in Ecclesiastes

or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when they have children there is nothing left for them to inherit. – Ecclesiastes 5:14

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he, – Ecclesiastes 6:3

Bible Verses About Children in Isaiah

Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth! For the Lord has spoken: “I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me. – Isaiah 1:2

Woe to the sinful nation, a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the Lord; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him. – Isaiah 1:4

“I will make mere youths their officials; children will rule over them.” – Isaiah 3:4

Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion. – Isaiah 8:18

Their bows will strike down the young men; they will have no mercy on infants, nor will they look with compassion on children. – Isaiah 13:18

Prepare a place to slaughter his children for the sins of their ancestors; they are not to rise to inherit the land and cover the earth with their cities. – Isaiah 14:21

“Who is it he is trying to teach? To whom is he explaining his message? To children weaned from their milk, to those just taken from the breast? – Isaiah 28:9

When they see among them their children, the work of my hands, they will keep my name holy; they will acknowledge the holiness of the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel. – Isaiah 29:23

“Woe to the obstinate children,” declares the Lord, “to those who carry out plans that are not mine, forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit, heaping sin upon sin;
– Isaiah 30:1

For these are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the Lord’s instruction. – Isaiah 30:9

They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment of birth and there is no strength to deliver them. – Isaiah 37:3

The living, the living—they praise you, as I am doing today; parents tell their children about your faithfulness. – Isaiah 38:19

Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west. – Isaiah 43:5

“This is what the Lord says— the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: Concerning things to come, do you question me about my children, or give me orders about the work of my hands? – Isaiah 45:11

“Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.’ – Isaiah 47:8

Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and all your potent spells. – Isaiah 47:9

Your descendants would have been like the sand, your children like its numberless grains; their name would never be blotted out nor destroyed from before me.” – Isaiah 48:19

Your children hasten back, and those who laid you waste depart from you. – Isaiah 49:17

Lift up your eyes and look around; all your children gather and come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the Lord, “you will wear them all as ornaments; you will put them on, like a bride. – Isaiah 49:18

The children born during your bereavement will yet say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; give us more space to live in.’ – Isaiah 49:20

But this is what the Lord says: “Yes, captives will be taken from warriors, and plunder retrieved from the fierce; I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save. – Isaiah 49:25

Among all the children she bore there was none to guide her; among all the children she reared there was none to take her by the hand. – Isaiah 51:18

Your children have fainted; they lie at every street corner, like antelope caught in a net. They are filled with the wrath of the Lord, with the rebuke of your God. – Isaiah 51:20

“Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the Lord. – Isaiah 54:1

All your children will be taught by the Lord, and great will be their peace. – Isaiah 54:13

“But you—come here, you children of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes! – Isaiah 57:3

You burn with lust among the oaks and under every spreading tree; you sacrifice your children in the ravines and under the overhanging crags. – Isaiah 57:5

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says the Lord. – Isaiah 59:21

Surely the islands look to me; in the lead are the ships of Tarshish, bringing your children from afar, with their silver and gold, to the honor of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you with splendor. – Isaiah 60:9

The children of your oppressors will come bowing before you; all who despise you will bow down at your feet and will call you the City of the Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel. – Isaiah 60:14

He said, “Surely they are my people, children who will be true to me”; and so he became their Savior. – Isaiah 63:8

They will not labor in vain, nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune; for they will be a people blessed by the Lord, they and their descendants with them. – Isaiah 65:23

Who has ever heard of such things? Who has ever seen things like this? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her children. – Isaiah 66:8

Bible Verses About Children in Jeremiah

“Therefore I bring charges against you again,” declares the Lord. “And I will bring charges against your children’s children. – Jeremiah 2:9

“I myself said, “‘How gladly would I treat you like my children and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.’ I thought you would call me ‘Father’ and not turn away from following me. – Jeremiah 3:19

“My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.” – Jeremiah 4:22

“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I supplied all their needs, yet they committed adultery and thronged to the houses of prostitutes. – Jeremiah 5:7

But I am full of the wrath of the Lord, and I cannot hold it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street and on the young men gathered together; both husband and wife will be caught in it, and the old, those weighed down with years. – Jeremiah 6:11

Therefore this is what the Lord says: “I will put obstacles before this people. Parents and children alike will stumble over them; neighbors and friends will perish.” – Jeremiah 6:21

The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to arouse my anger. – Jeremiah 7:18

Death has climbed in through our windows and has entered our fortresses; it has removed the children from the streets and the young men from the public squares. – Jeremiah 9:21

My tent is destroyed; all its ropes are snapped. My children are gone from me and are no more; no one is left now to pitch my tent or to set up my shelter. – Jeremiah 10:20

I will smash them one against the other, parents and children alike, declares the Lord. I will allow no pity or mercy or compassion to keep me from destroying them.’” – Jeremiah 13:14

Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles beside the spreading trees and on the high hills. – Jeremiah 17:2

So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives be made childless and widows; let their men be put to death, their young men slain by the sword in battle. – Jeremiah 18:21

They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind. – Jeremiah 19:5

Is this man Jehoiachin a despised, broken pot, an object no one wants? Why will he and his children be hurled out, cast into a land they do not know? – Jeremiah 22:28

Ask and see: Can a man bear children? Then why do I see every strong man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor, every face turned deathly pale? – Jeremiah 30:6

Their children will be as in days of old, and their community will be established before me; I will punish all who oppress them. – Jeremiah 30:20

This is what the Lord says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” – Jeremiah 31:15

So there is hope for your descendants,” declares the Lord. “Your children will return to their own land. – Jeremiah 31:17

“In those days people will no longer say, ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’ – Jeremiah 31:29

You show love to thousands but bring the punishment for the parents’ sins into the laps of their children after them. Great and mighty God, whose name is the Lord Almighty, – Jeremiah 32:18

I will give them singleness of heart and action, so that they will always fear me and that all will then go well for them and for their children after them. – Jeremiah 32:39

I will punish him and his children and his attendants for their wickedness; I will bring on them and those living in Jerusalem and the people of Judah every disaster I pronounced against them, because they have not listened.’” – Jeremiah 36:31

“All your wives and children will be brought out to the Babylonians. You yourself will not escape from their hands but will be captured by the king of Babylon; and this city will be burned down.” – Jeremiah 38:23

When all the army officers and their men who were still in the open country heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam as governor over the land and had put him in charge of the men, women and children who were the poorest in the land and who had not been carried into exile to Babylon, – Jeremiah 40:7

Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers who were with him led away all the people of Mizpah who had survived, whom Johanan had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after Ishmael had assassinated Gedaliah son of Ahikam—the soldiers, women, children and court officials he had recovered from Gibeon. – Jeremiah 41:16

They also led away all those whom Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard had left with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan—the men, the women, the children and the king’s daughters. And they took Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah along with them. – Jeremiah 43:6

“Now this is what the Lord God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Why bring such great disaster on yourselves by cutting off from Judah the men and women, the children and infants, and so leave yourselves without a remnant? – Jeremiah 44:7

at the sound of the hooves of galloping steeds, at the noise of enemy chariots and the rumble of their wheels. Parents will not turn to help their children; their hands will hang limp. – Jeremiah 47:3

‘Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.’” – Jeremiah 49:11

Bible Verses About Children in Lamentations

Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. The Lord has brought her grief because of her many sins. Her children have gone into exile, captive before the foe. – Lamentations 1:5

“This is why I weep and my eyes overflow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.” – Lamentations 1:16

My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city. – Lamentations 2:11

Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin; pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint from hunger at every street corner. – Lamentations 2:19

“Look, Lord, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the children they have cared for? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord? – Lamentations 2:20

How the precious children of Zion, once worth their weight in gold, are now considered as pots of clay, the work of a potter’s hands! – Lamentations 4:2

Because of thirst the infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth; the children beg for bread, but no one gives it to them. – Lamentations 4:4

With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed. – Lamentations 4:10

Bible Verses About Children in Ezekiel

Therefore in your midst parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds. – Ezekiel 5:10

Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, the mothers and children, but do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the old men who were in front of the temple. – Ezekiel 9:6

You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols. – Ezekiel 16:21

This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your naked body in your promiscuity with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because you gave them your children’s blood, – Ezekiel 16:36

You are a true daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and her children; and you are a true sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. – Ezekiel 16:45

“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: “‘The parents eat sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’? – Ezekiel 18:2

I said to their children in the wilderness, “Do not follow the statutes of your parents or keep their laws or defile yourselves with their idols. – Ezekiel 20:18

“‘But the children rebelled against me: They did not follow my decrees, they were not careful to keep my laws, of which I said, “The person who obeys them will live by them,” and they desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness. – Ezekiel 20:21

When you offer your gifts—the sacrifice of your children in the fire—you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. Am I to let you inquire of me, you Israelites? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will not let you inquire of me. – Ezekiel 20:31

for they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, as food for them. – Ezekiel 23:37

On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated it. That is what they did in my house. – Ezekiel 23:39

I will cause people, my people Israel, to live on you. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance; you will never again deprive them of their children. – Ezekiel 36:12

“‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because some say to you, “You devour people and deprive your nation of its children,” – Ezekiel 36:13

They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where your ancestors lived. They and their children and their children’s children will live there forever, and David my servant will be their prince forever. – Ezekiel 37:25

You are to allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners residing among you and who have children. You are to consider them as native-born Israelites; along with you they are to be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. – Ezekiel 47:22

Bible Verses About Children in Daniel

At the king’s command, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought in and thrown into the lions’ den, along with their wives and children. And before they reached the floor of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones. – Daniel 6:24

Bible Verses About Children in Hosea

When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.” – Hosea 1:2

“Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ – Hosea 1:10

I will not show my love to her children, because they are the children of adultery. – Hosea 2:4

my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. “Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children. – Hosea 4:6

They are unfaithful to the Lord; they give birth to illegitimate children. When they celebrate their New Moon feasts, he will devour their fields. – Hosea 5:7

Even if they rear children, I will bereave them of every one. Woe to them when I turn away from them! – Hosea 9:12

I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place. But Ephraim will bring out their children to the slayer.” – Hosea 9:13

Ephraim is blighted, their root is withered, they yield no fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay their cherished offspring.” – Hosea 9:16

the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be devastated— as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children. – Hosea 10:14

They will follow the Lord; he will roar like a lion. When he roars, his children will come trembling from the west. – Hosea 11:10

Bible Verses About Children in Joel

Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation. – Joel 1:3

Gather the people, consecrate the assembly; bring together the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her chamber. – Joel 2:16

Bible Verses About Children in Amos

“I also raised up prophets from among your children and Nazirites from among your youths. Is this not true, people of Israel?” declares the Lord. – Amos 2:11

Bible Verses About Children in Micah

Shave your head in mourning for the children in whom you delight; make yourself as bald as the vulture, for they will go from you into exile. – Micah 1:16

You drive the women of my people from their pleasant homes. You take away my blessing from their children forever. – Micah 2:9

Bible Verses About Children in Zechariah

The Ephraimites will become like warriors, and their hearts will be glad as with wine. Their children will see it and be joyful; their hearts will rejoice in the Lord. – Zechariah 10:7

Though I scatter them among the peoples, yet in distant lands they will remember me. They and their children will survive, and they will return. – Zechariah 10:9

Bible Verses About Children in Malachi

He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.” – Malachi 4:6

Bible Verses About Children in Matthew

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“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” – Matthew 2:18

And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. – Matthew 3:9

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. – Matthew 5:9

that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. – Matthew 5:45

If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! – Matthew 7:11

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. – Matthew 10:21

“To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others: – Matthew 11:16

At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. – Matthew 11:25

The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children. – Matthew 14:21

He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.” – Matthew 15:26

The number of those who ate was four thousand men, besides women and children. – Matthew 15:38

“Yes, he does,” he replied. When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. “What do you think, Simon?” he asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes—from their own children or from others?” – Matthew 17:25

“From others,” Peter answered. “Then the children are exempt,” Jesus said to him.
– Matthew 17:26

And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. – Matthew 18:3

Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt. – Matthew 18:25

Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked them. – Matthew 19:13

Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” – Matthew 19:14

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. – Matthew 19:29

But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant. – Matthew 21:15

“Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him. “Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read, “‘From the lips of children and infants you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?” – Matthew 21:16

“Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him. – Matthew 22:24

Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. – Matthew 22:25

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. – Matthew 23:37

All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!” – Matthew 27:25

Bible Verses About Children in Mark

“First let the children eat all they want,” he told her, “for it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.” – Mark 7:27

“Lord,” she replied, “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” – Mark 7:28

“Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.” – Mark 9:37

People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them. – Mark 10:13

When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. – Mark 10:14

And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them. – Mark 10:16

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, “children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! – Mark 10:24

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel – Mark 10:29

will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life. – Mark 10:30

“Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. – Mark 12:19

Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children. – Mark 12:20

In fact, none of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman died too. – Mark 12:22

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. – Mark 13:12

Bible Verses About Children in Luke

And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” – Luke 1:17

Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. – Luke 3:8

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. – Luke 6:35

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other: “‘We played the pipe for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not cry.’ – Luke 7:32

But wisdom is proved right by all her children.” – Luke 7:35

At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do. – Luke 10:21

And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can’t get up and give you anything.’ – Luke 11:7

If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” – Luke 11:13

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. – Luke 13:34

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple. – Luke 14:26

But Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. – Luke 18:16

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God – Luke 18:29

They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.” – Luke 19:44

“Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. – Luke 20:28

and then the third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children. – Luke 20:31

and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection. – Luke 20:36

Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. – Luke 23:28

Bible Verses About Children in John

Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— – John 1:12

children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. – John 1:13

“Abraham is our father,” they answered. “If you were Abraham’s children,” said Jesus, “then you would do what Abraham did. – John 8:39

You are doing the works of your own father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they protested. “The only Father we have is God himself.” – John 8:41

and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one. – John 11:52

Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light.” When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and hid himself from them. – John 12:36

“My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come. – John 13:33

Bible Verses About Children in Acts

The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.” – Acts 2:39

“Fellow children of Abraham and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent. – Acts 13:26

he has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm: “‘You are my son; today I have become your father.’ – Acts 13:33

When it was time to leave, we left and continued on our way. All of them, including wives and children, accompanied us out of the city, and there on the beach we knelt to pray. – Acts 21:5

They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs. – Acts 21:21

Bible Verses About Children in Romans

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— – Romans 2:20

For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. – Romans 8:14

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. – Romans 8:16

Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. – Romans 8:17

For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. – Romans 8:19

that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. – Romans 8:21

Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” – Romans 9:7

In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring. – Romans 9:8

Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac. – Romans 9:10

and, “In the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’” – Romans 9:26

Bible Verses About Children in 1 Corinthians

I am writing this not to shame you but to warn you as my dear children. – 1 Corinthians 4:14

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. – 1 Corinthians 7:14

Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults. – 1 Corinthians 14:20

Bible Verses About Children in 2 Corinthians

As a fair exchange—I speak as to my children—open wide your hearts also. – 2 Corinthians 6:13

Now I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. – 2 Corinthians 12:14

Bible Verses About Children in Galatians

Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. – Galatians 3:7

So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, – Galatians 3:26

My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you, – Galatians 4:19

These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. – Galatians 4:24

Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. – Galatians 4:25

For it is written: “Be glad, barren woman, you who never bore a child; shout for joy and cry aloud, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.” – Galatians 4:27

Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. – Galatians 4:28

Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman. – Galatians 4:31

Bible Verses About Children in Ephesians

Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children – Ephesians 5:1

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light – Ephesians 5:8

children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. – Ephesians 6:1

Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. – Ephesians 6:4

Bible Verses About Children in Philippians

so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky – Philippians 2:15

Bible Verses About Children in Colossians

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. – Colossians 3:20

Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged. – Colossians 3:21

Bible Verses About Children in 1 Thessalonians

Instead, we were like young children among you. Just as a nursing mother cares for her children, – 1 Thessalonians 2:7

For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children, – 1 Thessalonians 2:11

You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. – 1 Thessalonians 5:5

Bible Verses About Children in 1 Timothy

He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect. – 1 Timothy 3:4

A deacon must be faithful to his wife and must manage his children and his household well. – 1 Timothy 3:12

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God. – 1 Timothy 5:4

and is well known for her good deeds, such as bringing up children, showing hospitality, washing the feet of the Lord’s people, helping those in trouble and devoting herself to all kinds of good deeds. – 1 Timothy 5:10

So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander. – 1 Timothy 5:14

Bible Verses About Children in Titus

An elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient. – Titus 1:6

Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, – Titus 2:4

Bible Verses About Children in Hebrews

And again, “I will put my trust in him.” And again he says, “Here am I, and the children God has given me.” – Hebrews 2:13

Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— – Hebrews 2:14

And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise. – Hebrews 11:11

Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? – Hebrews 12:7

Bible Verses About Children in 1 Peter

As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. – 1 Peter 1:14

Bible Verses About Children in 1 John

My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. – 1 John 2:1

I am writing to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name. – 1 John 2:12

I write to you, dear children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one. – 1 John 2:14

Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. – 1 John 2:18

And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming. – 1 John 2:28

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. – 1 John 3:1

Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. – 1 John 3:2

Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. – 1 John 3:7

This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister. – 1 John 3:10

Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. – 1 John 3:18

You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. – 1 John 4:4

This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. – 1 John 5:2

We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. – 1 John 5:19

Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. – 1 John 5:21

Bible Verses About Children in 2 John

The elder, To the lady chosen by God and to her children, whom I love in the truth—and not I only, but also all who know the truth— – 2 John 1:1

It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. – 2 John 1:4

The children of your sister, who is chosen by God, send their greetings. – 2 John 1:13

Bible Verses About Children in 3 John

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. – 3 John 1:4

Bible Verses About Children in Revelation

I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds. – Revelation 2:23

Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. – Revelation 21:7