'Children' in the Bible

Then Herod, having seen that he was deceived by the mages, was very wroth, and having sent forth, he slew all the male children in Beth-Lehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time that he inquired exactly from the mages.

A voice in Ramah was heard -- lamentation and weeping and much mourning -- Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted because they are not.'

and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have -- Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham,

if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?

'And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

'And to what shall I liken this generation? it is like little children in market-places, sitting and calling to their comrades,

the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners, and wisdom was justified of her children.'

and those eating were about five thousand men, apart from women and children.

and those eating were four thousand men, apart from women and children.

and said, 'Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;

and he having nothing to pay, his lord did command him to be sold, and his wife, and the children, and all, whatever he had, and payment to be made.

Then were brought near to him children that he might put hands on them and pray, and the disciples rebuked them.

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

and every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name's sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit;

and the chief priests and the scribes having seen the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, 'Hosanna to the Son of David,' were much displeased;

'And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.'

'Teacher, Moses said, If any one may die not having children, his brother shall marry his wife, and shall raise up seed to his brother.

'Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.

and all the people answering said, 'His blood is upon us, and upon our children!'

And Jesus said to her, 'Suffer first the children to be filled, for it is not good to take the children's bread, and to cast it to the little dogs.'

'Whoever may receive one of such children in my name, doth receive me, and whoever may receive me, doth not receive me, but Him who sent me.'

And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them,

and Jesus having seen, was much displeased, and he said to them, 'Suffer the children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;

And the disciples were astonished at his words, and Jesus again answering saith to them, 'Children, how hard is it to those trusting on the riches to enter into the reign of God!

And Jesus answering said, 'Verily I say to you, there is no one who left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my sake, and for the good news',

who may not receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and fields, with persecutions, and in the age that is coming, life age-during;

'Teacher, Moses wrote to us, that if any one's brother may die, and may leave a wife, and may leave no children, that his brother may take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

'And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

and he shall go before Him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn hearts of fathers unto children, and disobedient ones to the wisdom of righteous ones, to make ready for the Lord, a people prepared.'

make, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have a father -- Abraham; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham;

they are like to children, to those sitting in a market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We piped to you, and ye did not dance, we mourned to you, and ye did not weep!

and the wisdom was justified from all her children.'

and he from within answering may say, Do not give me trouble, already the door hath been shut, and my children with me are in the bed, I am not able, having risen, to give to thee.

If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'

'Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that is killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto her, how often did I will to gather together thy children, as a hen her brood under the wings, and ye did not will.

'If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

and Jesus having called them near, said, 'Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;

and he said to them, 'Verily I say to you, that there is not one who left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the reign of God,

and lay thee low, and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou didst not know the time of thy inspection.'

and the third took her, and in like manner also the seven -- they left not children, and they died;

and Jesus having turned unto them, said, 'Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children;

They answered and said to him, 'Our father is Abraham;' Jesus saith to them, 'If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;

and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.

Little children, yet a little am I with you; ye will seek me, and, according as I said to the Jews -- Whither I go away, ye are not able to come, to you also I do say it now.

for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.'

God hath in full completed this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as also in the second Psalm it hath been written, My Son thou art -- I to-day have begotten thee.

but when it came that we completed the days, having gone forth, we went on, all bringing us on the way, with women and children, unto the outside of the city, and having bowed the knees upon the shore, we prayed,

and they are instructed concerning thee, that apostasy from Moses thou dost teach to all Jews among the nations, saying -- Not to circumcise the children, nor after the customs to walk;

The Spirit himself doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God;

and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ -- if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.

that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God;

nor because they are seed of Abraham are all children, but -- 'in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

that is, the children of the flesh -- these are not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;

Not as putting you to shame do I write these things, but as my beloved children I do admonish,

for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

and as a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say it,) be ye enlarged -- also ye!

Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now is, and is in servitude with her children,

for it hath been written, 'Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many are the children of the desolate -- more than of her having the husband.'

And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,

then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,

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

for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,

even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,

his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --

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

and again, 'Behold I and the children that God did give to me.'

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death -- that is, the devil --

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,

I write to you, little children, because the sins have been forgiven you through his name;

And now, little children, remain in him, that when he may be manifested, we may have boldness, and may not be ashamed before him, in his presence;

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous,

In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,

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

Ye -- of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you, than he who is in the world.

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

Little children, guard yourselves from the idols! Amen.

The Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth,

I rejoiced exceedingly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, even as a command we did receive from the Father;

salute thee do the children of thy choice sister. Amen.

greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

and her children I will kill in death, and know shall all the assemblies that I am he who is searching reins and hearts; and I will give to you -- to each -- according to your works.