Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, "I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD."

And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I shall die!"

And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, "Who are these with you?" Jacob said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, "No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning." Thus his father wept for him.

May God Almightygrant you mercy before the man, and may he send back your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."

And we said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him.'

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

"Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.

"Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.

You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

"Say to the people of Israel, Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name. read more. And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death, then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech.

Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the LORD has said to you, 'You shall never return that way again.'

"If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, read more. and they shall say to the elders of his city, 'This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.' Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

"'Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

And at the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow that he had made. She had never known a man, and it became a custom in Israel

And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the LORD had closed her womb.

And his mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.

He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!" And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.

When the child had grown, he went out one day to his father among the reapers.

He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the LORD!

Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

for the LORD reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

for before the boy knows how to cry 'My father' or 'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria."

The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. read more. The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.

For he said, "Surely they are my people, children who will not deal falsely." And he became their Savior. In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old. read more. But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.

They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.

Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,

For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household. read more. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;

and said, "Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

"Thus the Lord has done for me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among people."

I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants."'

When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.