Reference: Child, Children
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CHILD, CHILDREN
1. Value set on the possession of children.
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Then brother shall surrender brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And the enemies of a man shall be those of his own house. read more. He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
At that time Jesus spake and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and the intelligent, and hast revealed them to babes:
and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be changed and be as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days in which he looked upon me to take away my reproach among men.
and I am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hirelings.
A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when the little son is born, she no more remembers the anguish, for joy that a man is brought into the world.