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100 Bible Verses about Gods Child

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 1,097 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 865 helpful votes

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

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 759 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

John 1:12 ESV / 725 helpful votes

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 632 helpful votes

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

Matthew 18:10 ESV / 615 helpful votes

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Isaiah 54:13 ESV / 546 helpful votes

All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.

Galatians 3:26 ESV / 541 helpful votes

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

1 John 3:1 ESV / 525 helpful votes

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Mark 10:13-16 ESV / 516 helpful votes

And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

Romans 8:14 ESV / 494 helpful votes

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

John 3:16 ESV / 494 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Psalm 113:9 ESV / 487 helpful votes

He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 484 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 3:14-15 ESV / 470 helpful votes

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Proverbs 29:17 ESV / 454 helpful votes

Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 453 helpful votes

Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

Matthew 19:14 ESV / 452 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.”

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 448 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 438 helpful votes

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

Romans 8:16 ESV / 429 helpful votes

The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

Psalm 8:2 ESV / 419 helpful votes

Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 417 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 410 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.

Proverbs 1:8-9 ESV / 408 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

Matthew 21:15-16 ESV / 394 helpful votes

But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, “‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?”

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 389 helpful votes

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Matthew 5:9 ESV / 385 helpful votes

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 381 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Genesis 33:5 ESV / 371 helpful votes

And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

Deuteronomy 11:19 ESV / 367 helpful votes

You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Romans 8:17 ESV / 361 helpful votes

And if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

John 16:21 ESV / 360 helpful votes

When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Matthew 18:2-6 ESV / 352 helpful votes

And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 352 helpful votes

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 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.

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 347 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 333 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

2 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 331 helpful votes

And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

Proverbs 20:11 ESV / 325 helpful votes

Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright.

Deuteronomy 4:9 ESV / 320 helpful votes

“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children—

Luke 18:15-17 ESV / 317 helpful votes

Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”

1 John 3:10 ESV / 315 helpful votes

By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 314 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

1 Peter 2:2-3 ESV / 304 helpful votes

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 299 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Exodus 20:5-6 ESV / 293 helpful votes

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Proverbs 15:5 ESV / 286 helpful votes

A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.

Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 284 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 279 helpful votes

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

John 1:12-13 ESV / 268 helpful votes

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

2 Chronicles 34:1-3 ESV / 261 helpful votes

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father; and he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.

John 11:52 ESV / 260 helpful votes

And not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 258 helpful votes

Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.

2 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 254 helpful votes

I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.

Hebrews 12:9-11 ESV / 252 helpful votes

Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 251 helpful votes

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 248 helpful votes

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 248 helpful votes

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.

Mark 9:37 ESV / 242 helpful votes

“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”

Leviticus 19:3 ESV / 242 helpful votes

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 235 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 233 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Mark 10:14 ESV / 218 helpful votes

But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 217 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 Corinthians 14:20 ESV / 216 helpful votes

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

James 1:5 ESV / 204 helpful votes

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 201 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 198 helpful votes

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:16-17 ESV / 196 helpful votes

The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

1 John 3:2 ESV / 194 helpful votes

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 183 helpful votes

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

3 John 1:4 ESV / 177 helpful votes

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

James 1:27 ESV / 176 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Psalm 115:14 ESV / 175 helpful votes

May the Lord give you increase, you and your children!

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 171 helpful votes

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 167 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Ecclesiastes 12:1 ESV / 167 helpful votes

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

James 1:17 ESV / 166 helpful votes

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

1 Timothy 5:4 ESV / 162 helpful votes

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

Romans 8:15 ESV / 153 helpful votes

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 153 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 152 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 150 helpful votes

And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Matthew 18:12-14 ESV / 150 helpful votes

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

Mark 9:36-37 ESV / 149 helpful votes

And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them, “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”

Galatians 4:1-5 ESV / 140 helpful votes

I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 138 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 137 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 135 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 134 helpful votes

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

Romans 8:19 ESV / 132 helpful votes

For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.

Deuteronomy 30:1-3 ESV / 129 helpful votes

“And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you, and return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.

Psalm 128:3 ESV / 128 helpful votes

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 127 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Acts 16:31 ESV / 124 helpful votes

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Luke 2:51-52 ESV / 120 helpful votes

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.

Ezekiel 20:18 ESV / 120 helpful votes

“And I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Proverbs 24:21-22 ESV / 120 helpful votes

My son, fear the Lord and the king, and do not join with those who do otherwise, for disaster will arise suddenly from them, and who knows the ruin that will come from them both?

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 117 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 110 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

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