What Does the Bible Say About Care For Children?

Matthew 19:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Timothy 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,

Colossians 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Ephesians 1:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,

Galatians 3:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

1 Corinthians 15:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; ...

1 Corinthians 11:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.

1 Corinthians 10:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?

Romans 12:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.

Romans 8:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Acts 18:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.

Acts 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

Acts 2:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

Acts 2:38-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”

Acts 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Acts 1:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” ...

John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Luke 24:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? ...

Matthew 16:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Habakkuk 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Job 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Genesis 12:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

37 Bible Verses about Care For Children

Matthew 19:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Galatians 3:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 15:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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1 Corinthians 11:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 18:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:38-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 1:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 24:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 16:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Habakkuk 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Job 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 12:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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37 Bible Verses about Care For Children

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Matthew 19:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Colossians 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Galatians 3:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 15:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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1 Corinthians 10:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 18:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Acts 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 24:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 16:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Habakkuk 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Job 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 12:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes