'Child' in the Bible

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in this way: when his mother Mary was going to be married to Joseph, before they came together the discovery was made that she was with child by the Holy Spirit.

See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us.

And he sent them to Beth-lehem and said, Go and make certain where the young child is; and when you have seen him, let me have news of it, so that I may come and give him worship.

And after hearing the king, they went on their way; and the star which they saw in the east went before them, till it came to rest over the place where the young child was.

And they came into the house, and saw the young child with Mary, his mother; and falling down on their faces they gave him worship; and from their store they gave him offerings of gold, perfume, and spices.

And when they had gone, an angel of the Lord came to Joseph in a dream, saying, Get up and take the young child and his mother, and go into Egypt, and do not go from there till I give you word; for Herod will be searching for the young child to put him to death.

So he took the young child and his mother by night, and went into Egypt;

Saying, Get up and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: because they who were attempting to take the young child's life are dead.

And he got up, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.

And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

And he took a little child, and put him in the middle of them,

Whoever, then, will make himself as low as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

And whoever gives honour to one such little child in my name, gives honour to me:

And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.

But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.

And when he had gone in, he said to them, Why are you making such a noise and weeping? The child is not dead, but sleeping.

And they were laughing at him. But he, having sent them all out, took the father of the child and her mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was.

And taking her by the hand, he said to her, Talitha cumi, which is, My child, I say to you, Get up.

And she went away to her house, and saw the child on the bed, and the evil spirit gone out.

And Jesus questioning the father said, How long has he been like this? And he said, From a child.

Straight away the father of the child gave a cry, saying, I have faith; make my feeble faith stronger.

And after crying out and shaking him violently, it came out: and the child became like one dead; so that most of them said, He is dead.

And he took a little child, and put him in the middle of them; and taking him in his arms, he said to them,

Whoever will give honour to one such little child in my name, gives honour to me: and whoever gives honour to me, gives honour not to me, but to him who sent me.

Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.

Master, in the law Moses says, If a man's brother comes to his end, and has a wife still living and no child, it is right for his brother to take his wife, and get a family for his brother.

And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

And it will be hard for women who are with child and for her who has a baby at the breast in those days.

And she said with a loud voice: May blessing be on you among women, and a blessing on the child of your body.

And on the eighth day they came to see to the circumcision of the child, and they would have given him the name of Zacharias, his father's name;

And all who had word of them kept them in their minds and said, What will this child be? For the hand of the Lord was with him.

And you, child, will be named the prophet of the Most High: you will go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways;

And the child became tall, and strong in spirit; and he was living in the waste land till the day when he came before the eyes of Israel.

And this is the sign to you: you will see a young child folded in linen, in the place where the cattle have their food.

And they came quickly, and saw Mary and Joseph, and the child in the place where the cattle had their food.

And when they saw it, they gave them an account of the things which had been said to them about the child.

(As it says in the law of the Lord, Every mother's first male child is to be holy to the Lord),

And full of the Spirit he came into the Temple; and when the father and mother came in with the child Jesus, to do with him what was ordered by the law,

And Simeon gave them his blessing and said to Mary, his mother, See, this child will be the cause of the downfall and the lifting up of great numbers of people in Israel, and he will be a sign against which hard words will be said;

And the child became tall and strong and full of wisdom, and the grace of God was on him.

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been as a child, and he went, as his way was, into the Synagogue on the Sabbath, and got up to give a reading.

But he, taking her hand, said to her, My child, get up.

And a man from among them, crying out, said, Master, I make a request to you, give a thought to my son, for he is my only child:

But when Jesus saw the reasoning of their hearts, he took a small child and put him by his side,

And said to them, Whoever gives honour to this child in my name, gives honour to me: and whoever gives honour to me, gives honour to him who sent me: for whoever is least among you all, that man is great.

Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.

It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on this people.

Moses gave you circumcision--not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers--and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision.

If a child is given circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.

When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.

And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time.

And not only so, but Rebecca being about to have a child by our father Isaac--

For this cause I have sent Timothy to you, who is my dear and true child in the Lord; he will make clear to you my ways in Christ, even as I am teaching everywhere in every church.

When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child.

But I say that as long as the son is a child, he is in no way different from a servant, though he is lord of all;

But his quality is clear to you; how, as a child is to its father, so he was a help to me in the work of the good news.

When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

To Timothy, my well-loved child: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

So then, my child, be strong in the grace which is in Christ Jesus.

And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.

To Titus, my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

My request is for my child Onesimus, the child of my chains,

For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child.

By faith Moses was kept secretly by his father and mother for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a fair child; and they had no fear of the king's orders.

The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.

Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.

And she was with child; and she gave a cry, in the pains of childbirth.

And his tail was pulling a third part of the stars of heaven down to the earth, and the dragon took his place before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when the birth had taken place he might put an end to her child.

And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who was to have rule over all the nations with a rod of iron: and her child was taken up to God and to his high seat.

And when the dragon saw that he was forced down to the earth, he made cruel attacks on the woman who gave birth to the male child.