43 Bible Verses about Loving Children

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.

"Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me."

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God's children -- and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become disheartened.

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness -- the one who does not love his fellow Christian -- is not of God.

But Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

But the Lord continually shows loyal love to his faithful followers, and is faithful to their descendants,

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

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

and not for the Jewish nation only, but to gather together into one the children of God who are scattered.)

and said, "I tell you the truth, unless you turn around and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!

"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

I will have no pity on her children, because they are children conceived in adultery.

Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

This woman's child suffocated during the night when she rolled on top of him.

If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

The one who spares his rod hates his child, but the one who loves his child is diligent in disciplining him.

From the elder, to an elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth (and not I alone, but also all those who know the truth),

He called a child, had him stand among them,

Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

I prayed for this boy, and the Lord has given me the request that I asked of him.

All your children will be followers of the Lord, and your children will enjoy great prosperity.

When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son, and I summoned my son out of Egypt.

Look, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not want your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

For the Lord disciplines those he loves, just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights.

The Lord said to me, "Go, show love to your wife again, even though she loves another man and continually commits adultery. Likewise, the Lord loves the Israelites although they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols."

As a mother consoles a child, so I will console you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem."

Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.

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

The descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those who are loyal to him will live in it.

Yes, sons are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward.

I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living according to the truth.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

"Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

Discipline your child, for there is hope, but do not set your heart on causing his death.

He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment."

The king then said, "Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other!"

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