11 Bible Verses about The Only Child

He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."

He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."

and said, "By myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,

Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her.

for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. As Jesus went, the people pressed around him.

And behold, a man from the crowd cried out, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.

When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.

"And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,