Reference: Child, Children
Hastings
CHILD, CHILDREN
1. Value set on the possession of children.
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One brother will give up another to death, and a father his child, and children will turn against their parents, and have them put to death.
For I have come to turn a man against his father and a daughter against her mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man's enemies will be in his own household. read more. No one who loves father or mother more than he loves me is worthy of me, and no one who loves son or daughter more than he loves me is worthy of me, and no one who will not take up his cross and follow me is worthy of me.
At that same time Jesus said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the learned and intelligent and revealing it to children.
and he said, "I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven at all.
"This is what the Lord has done for me," she said, "now that he has deigned to remove the disgrace I have endured."
I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired men!" '
When a woman is in labor she is sorrowful, for her time has come; but when the child is born, she forgets her pain in her joy that a human being has been brought into the world.