When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I laid aside my childish ways.

And all at once some men were bringing to Him a paralyzed man, lying on a couch. And because He saw their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, "Cheer up, my child, your sins are forgiven."

"Teacher, Moses gave us a law that if a man's brother died leaving a wife but no child, the man must marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

"Teacher, Moses wrote for us a law that, if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, the man should take the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

Then a man in the crowd at once shouted, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, because he is my only child;

Well, if a male child undergoes circumcision on the Sabbath, to keep the law of Moses from being broken, are you angry with me for making a man perfectly well on the Sabbath?

After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Wake up! Tenderly take the child and His mother, and escape to Egypt; stay there until I further direct you, for Herod is going to search for the child to destroy Him."

and said, "Wake up, tenderly take the child and His mother, and make the trip to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead."

His tail was dragging after it a third part of the stars of heaven and dashed them down upon the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth to a child, in order to devour her child as soon as it was born.

She gave birth to a son, a male child who is going to rule all the nations with a scepter of iron; and the child was caught up to God, to His throne.

Then Symeon gave them his blessing, and said to Mary, the child's mother, "This child is destined to bring the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign continuously disputed --

But the child of the slave girl was born in the ordinary course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born to fulfill the promise.

This is the way to distinguish God's children from the devil's children. No one who fails to do right is God's child, and no one who fails to love his brother.

We are children of God. Whoever knows God by experience listens to us; whoever is not a child of God does not listen to us. This is the way to distinguish a true spiritual utterance from one that is false.

One brother will turn another over to death, and a father his child, and children will take a stand against their parents, and will have them put to death.

One brother will turn another over to death, and a father his child, and children will take a stand against their parents and have them put to death.

For the Scripture says: "Rejoice, you childless woman, who never bore a child; break forth into shouting, you who feel no birth pangs; for the desolate woman has many children, even more than the married one."

to Timothy my genuine child in faith: spiritual blessing, mercy, and peace be with you from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

to my dearly loved child, Timothy: spiritual blessing, mercy, and peace be with you from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

to Titus, my genuine child in our common faith: be spiritual blessing and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

yes, I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I have become while wearing these chains.

By faith Sarah received strength to become pregnant, and actually gave birth to a child, although she was past the time of life for it, because she thought that He who made her the promise was to be trusted.

By faith, Moses, at his birth was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's decree.

Dearly beloved, let us practice loving one another, because love originates with God, and everyone who practices loving is a child of God and knows God by experience.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves His child.

for every child of God continues to conquer the world. Our faith is the victory that has conquered the world.

Dearly beloved, do not follow bad examples but good ones. Whoever practices doing right is God's child; whoever practices doing wrong has never seen God.

So he sent them to Bethlehem with this order, "Go and carefully search for the child, and when you find Him, bring back word to me, and I too may come and do Him homage."

After listening to the king, they started on their journey, and the star which they had seen rise led them on until it came and stopped over the place where the child was.

and went into the house and saw the child with His mother, Mary; and they fell at His feet and worshiped Him. They opened up their treasure sacks and presented Him with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Then he awoke and tenderly took the child and His mother by night and made their escape to Egypt;

Then he awoke, tenderly took the child and His mother, and made the trip to the land of Israel.

She was about to become a mother, and she cried out in anguish in giving birth to a child.

When the dragon saw that he had been hurled down to the earth, he started persecuting the woman who had given birth to the male child.

And He called a little child to Him, and had him stand in the midst of them,

So then, whoever becomes as lowly as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven,

and whoever welcomes one little child like this for my sake welcomes me.

Then He took a little child and had him stand in the midst of them; then He took him in His arms, and said to them,

"Whoever, as a disciple of mine, welcomes one little child like this, welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes not merely me but Him who sent me."

And they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both of them were far advanced in years.

Then the angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you, and so your child will be called holy, the Son of God.

and with a loud shout she said: "Blessed are you among women, And blessed is your child!

So it was time for Elizabeth to bear a child, and she bore a son.

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they tried to name him Zechariah, after his father.

and all who heard them kept them in their hearts, and said, "What then is this child to be?" for the hand of the Lord was with him.

And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to make ready His ways,

Now the child continued to grow and to gain strength in the Spirit, and he lived in the desert until the day when he announced himself to Israel.

When they saw this, they informed them of the story that had been told about this child.

I solemnly say to you, whoever does not accept the kingdom of God as a little child does, will never get into it at all."

But he said to Him, "Teacher, I have kept all these commandments ever since I was a child."

There were once seven brothers. The eldest married a wife and on dying left no child,

and the second married her and died leaving no child; and so did the third.

And not one of the seven left a child. At last the woman died too.

So under the Spirit's guidance he went into the temple, and when the parents brought the child Jesus there to do for Him as the custom of the law required,

Just at that time she came up and began to give thanks to God and to speak about the child to all who were expecting the deliverance of Jerusalem.

And the child continued to grow and gain in strength; He continued to increase in wisdom, and the spiritual blessing of God was on Him.

When His parents saw Him, they were utterly amazed, and yet His mother said to Him, "My child, why did you treat us so? Just see how your father and I, in agony of mind, have been searching for you!"