21 Bible Verses about Kids

My children, let us not love in word nor in talk, but in deed and in truth.

"Let the little children come to me, and forbid them not; for it is to the childlike that the kingdom of heaven belongs."

And now for the third time I am preparing to visit you. I will not be a burden to you, for I am not seeking yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Fathers, do not harass your children, lest you make them spiritless.

"Let the children be filled first," he said to her. "It is unseemly to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; for every one who does not work righteousness is not a child of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

"In solemn truth I tell you that unless you turn and become like little children, you will not even enter the kingdom of heaven.

But Jesus turned and said: "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me;

"For the promise belongs to you and to your children and to all who are afar off, whomever the Lord may call."

"And brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise up against their parents, and have them put to death.

And you fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up in the nature and admonition of the Lord.

"but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they shall say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have never bore children, and the breasts that never suckled.'

But Jesus called for the babies. "Let the little children come to me," he said, "do not hinder them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are passing their lives in the truth.

When I was a child I spoke like a child, felt like a child, thought like a child; now that I am become a man, I have done with childish things.

He answered, "It is not seemly to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs."

Alas for thee women who are with child, and for the nursing mothers in those days!

"And brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against their parents and put them to death.

All the people answered, "His blood be upon us and upon our children."