Reference: Child, Children
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CHILD, CHILDREN
1. Value set on the possession of children.
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"And brother will deliver up brother to death; and father, his child; and children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
for I came to set a man at variance with his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and the man's foes will be those of his own house-hold. 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 whosoever does not take up his cross, and follow Me, is not worthy of Me.
At that season Jesus, answering, said, "I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, because Thou didst hide these things from the wise and discerning, and didst reveal them to babes.
and said, "Verily I say to you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
"Thus hath the Lord done to me in the days wherein He looked upon me, to take away my reproach among men!"
I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.'
A woman, when she is in travail, has sorrow, because her hour came; but, when she bears the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born into the world.