23 Bible Verses about Loving Children

Dear children, let us love not with words or lips only but in reality and truth.

"Whoever welcomes one child like this on my account is welcoming me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes not me but him who has sent me."

Think what love the Father has had for us, in letting us be called God's children, for that is what we are. This is why the world does not know what we are??ecause it has never come to know him.

Fathers, do not irritate your children, or they may lose heart.

This is how the children of God and those of the devil can be distinguished: No one who does not act uprightly or who does not love his brother is a child of God.

But Jesus said, "Let the children alone, and do not try to keep them from coming to me, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as they are."

This is how we can be sure that we love the children of God: it is by loving God and obeying his commands.

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

and he said, "I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven at all.

No one who loves father or mother more than he loves me is worthy of me, and no one who loves son or daughter more than he loves me is worthy of me,

So follow God's example, like his dear children,

"If anyone comes to me without hating his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his very life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give what is good to those who ask him for it!

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God, and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.

The Elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I truly love??nd not only I but all who know the truth??2 because of the truth that stays in our hearts and will be with us forever;

He called a child to him and had him stand among them,

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves those who are his children.

Here it is the third time that I have been ready to come to see you, and I do not intend to be a burden to you now; for it is not your money but yourselves that I want; for children are not expected to lay up money for their parents, but parents for their children.

You all belong to the light and the day. We have nothing to do with night or with darkness.

I know of no greater blessing than hearing that my children are being guided by the truth.

You fathers, too, must not irritate your children, but you must bring them up with Christian training and instruction.

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

But Jesus turned to them and said, "Women of Jerusalem, do not weep for me but weep for yourselves and for your children,