11 Bible Verses about Love For Children

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,

And Israel hath loved Joseph more than any of his sons, for he is a son of his old age, and hath made for him a long coat;

and we say unto my lord, We have a father, an aged one, and a child of old age, a little one; and his brother died, and he is left alone of his mother, and his father hath loved him. 'And thou sayest unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, and I set mine eye upon him; and we say unto my lord, The youth is not able to leave his father, when he hath left his father, then he hath died;read more.
and thou sayest unto thy servants, If your young brother come not down with you, ye add not to see my face. 'And it cometh to pass, that we have come up unto thy servant my father, that we declare to him the words of my lord; and our father saith, Turn back, buy for us a little food, and we say, We are not able to go down; if our young brother is with us, then we have gone down; for we are not able to see the man's face, and our young brother not with us. And thy servant my father saith unto us, Ye -- ye have known that two did my wife bare to me, and the one goeth out from me, and I say, Surely he is torn -- torn! and I have not seen him since; when ye have taken also this from my presence, and mischief hath met him, then ye have brought down my grey hairs with evil to sheol.

And the king trembleth, and goeth up on the upper chamber of the gate, and weepeth, and thus he hath said in his going, 'My son! Absalom my son; my son Absalom; oh that I had died for thee, Absalom, my son, my son.'

'And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;

in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep;

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

But Jesus said, 'Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'