11 Bible Verses about Love For Children

In this way they will train the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons because he was a son born to him late in life, and he made a special tunic for him.

We said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.' "Then you told your servants, 'Bring him down to me so I can see him.' We said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die.'read more.
But you said to your servants, 'If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.' When we returned to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. "Then our father said, 'Go back and buy us a little food.' But we replied, 'We cannot go down there. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go, for we won't be permitted to see the man's face if our youngest brother is not with us.' "Then your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife gave me two sons. The first disappeared and I said, "He has surely been torn to pieces." I have not seen him since. If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.'

The king then became very upset. He went up to the upper room over the gate and wept. As he went he said, "My son, Absalom! My son, my son, Absalom! If only I could have died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!"

So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way from home his father saw him, and his heart went out to him; he ran and hugged his son and kissed him.

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.

But Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."