Now the man had marital relations with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Then she said, "I have created a man just as the Lord did!"

He had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. Once Hagar realized she was pregnant, she despised Sarai.

When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children or I'll die!"

When Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, he asked, "Who are these people with you?" Jacob replied, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."

All his sons and daughters stood by him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. "No," he said, "I will go to the grave mourning my son." So Joseph's father wept for him.

May the sovereign God grant you mercy before the man so that he may release your other brother and Benjamin! As for me, if I lose my children I lose them."

We said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'

"Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

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

"Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.

You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord!

Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

"You are to say to the Israelites, 'Any man from the Israelites or from the foreigners who reside in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death; the people of the land must pelt him with stones. I myself will set my face against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people, because he has given some of his children to Molech and thereby defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name. read more. If, however, the people of the land shut their eyes to that man when he gives some of his children to Molech so that they do not put him to death, I myself will set my face against that man and his clan. I will cut off from the midst of their people both him and all who follow after him in spiritual prostitution, to commit prostitution by worshiping Molech.

Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, for the Lord has said you must never again return that way.

If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail, his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city. read more. They must declare to the elders of his city, "Our son is stubborn and rebellious and pays no attention to what we say -- he is a glutton and drunkard." Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out wickedness from among you, and all Israel will hear about it and be afraid.

Cursed is the one who disrespects his father and mother.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'

After two months she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. She died a virgin. Her tragic death gave rise to a custom in Israel.

Her rival wife used to upset her and make her worry, for the Lord had not enabled her to have children.

His mother used to make him a small robe and bring it up to him at regular intervals when she would go up with her husband to make the annual sacrifice.

Then David prayed to God for the child and fasted. He would even go and spend the night lying on the ground.

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was traveling up the road, some young boys came out of the city and made fun of him, saying, "Go on up, baldy! Go on up, baldy!" When he turned around and saw them, he called God's judgment down on them. Two female bears came out of the woods and ripped forty-two of the boys to pieces.

The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.

He makes the barren woman of the family a happy mother of children. Praise the Lord!

Yes, sons are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house; your children will be like olive branches, as they sit all around your table.

Indeed I am composed and quiet, like a young child carried by its mother; I am content like the young child I carry.

Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

For the Lord disciplines those he loves, just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights.

The one who spares his rod hates his child, but the one who loves his child is diligent in disciplining him.

A fool rejects his father's discipline, but whoever heeds reproof shows good sense.

Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

A rod and reproof impart wisdom, but a child who is unrestrained brings shame to his mother.

for before the child knows how to cry out, 'My father' or 'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria."

A wolf will reside with a lamb, and a leopard will lie down with a young goat; an ox and a young lion will graze together, as a small child leads them along. A cow and a bear will graze together, their young will lie down together. A lion, like an ox, will eat straw. read more. A baby will play over the hole of a snake; over the nest of a serpent an infant will put his hand. They will no longer injure or destroy on my entire royal mountain. For there will be universal submission to the Lord's sovereignty, just as the waters completely cover the sea.

He said, "Certainly they will be my people, children who are not disloyal." He became their deliverer. Through all that they suffered, he suffered too. The messenger sent from his very presence delivered them. In his love and mercy he protected them; he lifted them up and carried them throughout ancient times. read more. But they rebelled and offended his holy Spirit, so he turned into an enemy and fought against them.

They built places of worship for the god Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that they could sacrifice their sons and daughters to the god Molech. Such a disgusting practice was not something I commanded them to do! It never even entered my mind to command them to do such a thing! So Judah is certainly liable for punishment.'

And the streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing.

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

For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man's enemies will be the members of his 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 up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to little children.

and said, "I tell you the truth, unless you turn around and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!

"This is what the Lord has done for me at the time when he has been gracious to me, to take away my disgrace among people."

I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired workers."'

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.