'Child' in the Bible

and sent them to Bethlehem. He told them, "As you go, search carefully for the child. When you find him, tell me so that I, too, may go and worship him."

After listening to the king, they set out, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it came and stopped over the place where the child was.

After they went into the house and saw the child with his mother Mary, they fell down and worshipped him. Then they opened their treasure sacks and offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt," he said. "Stay there until I tell you, because Herod intends to search for the child and kill him."

So Joseph got up, took the child and his mother, and left at night for Egypt.

"Get up," he said. "Take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, because those who were trying to kill the child are dead."

So Joseph got up, took the child and his mother, and went into the land of Israel.

"Brother will hand brother over for execution, and a father his child. Children will rebel against parents and have them put to death.

Calling a little child forward, he had him stand among them.

Therefore, whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom from heaven,

and whoever receives a little child like this in my name receives me."

He entered the house and asked them, "Why all this confusion and crying? The child isn't dead. She's sleeping."

They laughed and laughed at him. But when he had driven all of them outside, he took the child's father and mother, along with the men who were with him, and went into the room where the child was.

So she went home and found her child lying in bed, and the demon was gone.

Then Jesus asked his father, "How long has this been happening to him?" He said, "Since he was a child.

The spirit screamed, shook the child violently, and came out. The boy was like a corpse, and many said that he was dead.

Then he took a little child and had him stand among them. He took him in his arms and told them,

"Whoever welcomes a child like this in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me."

I tell all of you with certainty, whoever doesn't receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it."

"Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, he should marry the widow and have children for his brother.

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.

The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come over you, and the power of the Most High will surround you. Therefore, the child will be holy and will be called the Son of God.

When the time came for Elizabeth to have her child, she gave birth to a son.

On the eighth day they went to circumcise the child. They were going to name him Zechariah after his father,

Everyone who heard about it kept thinking what had happened and asked, "What will this child become?" because it was obvious that the hand of the Lord was with him.

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, because you will go ahead of the Lord to prepare his way

Now the child continued to grow and to become spiritually strong. He lived in the wilderness until the day he appeared in Israel.

and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no place for them in the guest quarters.

When they saw this, they repeated what they had been told about this child.

Led by the Spirit, he went into the Temple. When the parents brought the child Jesus to do for him what was customary under the Law,

Meanwhile, the child continued to grow and to become strong. He was filled with wisdom, and God's favor rested upon him.

Suddenly, a man in the crowd shouted, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, because he is my only child.

But Jesus, knowing their inner thoughts, took a little child and had him stand beside him.

Then he told them, "Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me, because the one who is least among all of you is the one who is greatest."

"His father told him, "My child, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.

"But Abraham said, "My child, remember that during your lifetime you received blessings, while Lazarus received hardships. But now he is being comforted here, while you suffer.

I tell all of you with certainty, whoever doesn't receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never get into it at all."

and asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, the man should marry the widow and have children for his brother.

While he was on his way, his servants met him and told him that his child was alive.

When a woman is in labor she has pain, because her time has come. Yet when she has given birth to her child, she doesn't remember the agony anymore because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.

God gave him no property here, not even a foot of land, yet he promised to give it to him and to his descendants after him as a permanent possession, even though he had no child.

according to his calling and not by actions), Rebecca was told, "The older child will serve the younger one."

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways.

Now what I am saying is this: As long as an heir is a child, he is no better off than a slave, even though he owns everything.

So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if you are a child, then you are also an heir because of what God did.

To: Timothy, my genuine child in the faith. May grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Messiah Jesus, our Lord, be yours!

Timothy, my child, I am instructing you in keeping with the prophecies made earlier about you, so that by following them you may continue to fight the good fight

even though she will be saved through the birth of the Child, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, along with good judgment.

To: Timothy, my dear child. May grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Messiah Jesus our Lord be yours!

As for you, my child, be strong by the grace that is in the Messiah Jesus.

To: Titus, a genuine child in the faith that we share. May grace and peace from God the Father and the Messiah, Jesus our Savior, be yours!

appeal to you on behalf of my child Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment.

By faith Moses was hidden by his parents for three months after he was born, because they saw that he was a beautiful child and were not afraid of the king's order.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born from God, and everyone who loves the parent also loves the child.

Its tail swept away one-third of the stars in the sky and knocked them down to the earth. Then the dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth so that it could devour her child when it was born.

She gave birth to a son, a boy, who is to rule all the nations with an iron scepter. But her child was snatched away and taken to God and to his throne.