What Does the Bible Say About Serving Children?

Mark 9:33-37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” But they kept silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.” 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.”

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 4:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.

Romans 2:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.

Luke 14:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

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 6:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. ...

8 Bible Verses about Serving Children

Mark 9:33-37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 4:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 2:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 14:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Mark 9:33-37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 4:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 2:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 14:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes