43 Bible Verses about Loving Children

My Little children, we should not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Whoever may receive one of such children in my name, receives me, and whoever may receive me, does not receive me, but him who sent me.

Behold what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we may be called children of God. Because of this the world does not know you, because it did not know him.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they may not be discouraged.

By this the children of God are visible, and the children of the devil. Every man not doing righteousness is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother.

But Jesus said, Allow the children, and do not forbid them to come to me, for of such kind is the kingdom of the heavens.

But the loving kindness of LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who fear him, and his righteousness to son's sons,

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

For ye are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

And not for the nation only, but also that he might gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

And he said, Truly I say to you, if ye are not turned, and become as children, ye will, no, not enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

Yea, I will have no mercy upon her sons, for they are sons of whoredom,

Become ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And this woman's child died in the night, because she lay upon it.

If ye therefore, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children, how much more your Father in the heavens will give good things to those who ask him?

Beloved, we should love each other. Because love is of God, and every man who loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him chastens him promptly.

The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all those who know the truth,

And having called in a child, Jesus set it in the midst of them.

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, these may forget, yet I will not forget thee.

Every man who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten from God, and every man who loves him who begot, also loves him who has been begotten from him.

I prayed for this child, and LORD has given me my petition which I asked of him.

And all thy sons shall be taught of LORD, and great shall be the peace of thy sons.

When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

Behold, a third time I fare readily to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not the things of you, but you. For the children ought not lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

For whom LORD loves he reproves, {and he whips every son whom he receives (LXX/NT)}.

And LORD said to me, Go again, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, and an adulteress, even as LORD loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.

As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you, and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.

If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other regarded inferior, and they have borne him sons, both the beloved and the one regarded inferior, and if the first-born son be hers who was regarded inferior,

Ye are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

The seed also of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell therein.

Lo, sons are a heritage of LORD, [and] the fruit of the womb is [a] reward.

I have no greater joy than these things that I hear my children walking in truth.

And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children, but rear them in the training and admonition of Lord.

And a brother will deliver up a brother to death, and a father a child. And children will rise up against parents, and condemn them to death.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

But having turning to them, Jesus said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, instead weep for yourselves and for your children.