11 Bible Verses about The Only Child

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

He said, “Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear God, since 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 thing and have not withheld your son, your only son,

When Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah, behold, his daughter was coming out to meet him with tambourines and with dancing. Now she was his one and only child; besides her he had no son or daughter.

Now as He approached the gate of the city, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a sizeable crowd from the city was with her.

for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. But as He went, the crowds were pressing against Him.

And a man from the crowd shouted, saying, “Teacher, I beg You to look at my son, for he is my only boy,

When I was a son to my father,
Tender and the only son in the sight of my mother,

“Then I will turn your festivals into mourning
And all your songs into lamentation;
And I will bring sackcloth on everyone’s loins
And baldness on every head.
And I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son,
And the end of it will be like a bitter day.

“I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.

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