Reference: Child, Children
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CHILD, CHILDREN
1. Value set on the possession of children.
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And a brother shall deliver a brother to death, and a father a son; and children shall rise up against their parents and put them to death;
I have come to set a man at variance against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a bride against her mother-in-law; and a man's enemies shall be those of his own house. read more. He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and he that does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
At that time Jesus answering said, I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and hast revealed them to babes.
and said, I tell you truly, that if you do not turn and become like little children, you can by no means enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Thus has the Lord dealt with me, in the days in which he looked upon me to take away my reproach among men.
I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me as one of your hired servants.
For when a woman is in labor she has pain, because her time has come; but when she has borne the child she no longer remembers the distress, because of joy that a man is born into the world.