43 Bible Verses about Loving Children
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Little children, we must not love with word or speech, but with truth and action.
“Whoever welcomes one little child such as this in My name welcomes Me. And whoever welcomes Me does not welcome Me, but Him who sent Me.”
Look at how great a love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children. And we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know Him.
Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so they won’t become discouraged.
This is how God’s children—and the Devil’s children—are made evident.
Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother.
Then Jesus said, “Leave the children alone, and don’t try to keep them from coming to Me, because the kingdom of heaven is made up of people like this.”
But from eternity to eternity
the Lord’s faithful love is toward those who fear Him,
and His righteousness toward the grandchildren
for you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
“I assure you,” He said, “unless you are converted and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
The person who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; the person who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
I will have no compassion on her children
because they are the children of promiscuity.
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, and even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
The one who will not use the rod hates his son,
but the one who loves him disciplines him diligently.
The Elder:
To the elect lady and her children: I love all of you in the truth—and not only I, but also all who have come to know the truth—
“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
or lack compassion for the child of her womb?
Even if these forget,
yet I will not forget you.
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of Him.
Then all your children will be taught by the Lord,
their prosperity will be great,
When Israel was a child, I loved him,
and out of Egypt I called My son.
Now I am ready to come to you this third time. I will not burden you, for I am not seeking what is yours, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
Foolishness is tangled up in the heart of a youth;
the rod of discipline will drive it away from him.
for the Lord disciplines the one He loves,
just as a father, the son he delights in.
Then the Lord said to me, “Go again; show love to a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the Israelites though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”
As a mother comforts her son,
so I will comfort you,
and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.
Teach a youth about the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.
“If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved bear him sons, and if the unloved wife has the firstborn son,
For you are all sons of light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.
The descendants of His servants will inherit it,
and those who love His name will live in it.
Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord,
children, a reward.
Fathers, don’t stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will even rise up against their parents and have them put to death.
Discipline your son while there is hope;
don’t be intent on killing him.
And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”
But turning to them, Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and your children.
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