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John 1:12 ESV / 1,624 helpful votes
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 1,123 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Galatians 3:26 ESV / 1,068 helpful votes
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 808 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 / 672 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.
1 John 3:1 ESV / 634 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.
Romans 8:16 ESV / 615 helpful votes
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
John 3:16 ESV / 597 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.
Mark 10:13-16 ESV / 541 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.
Matthew 5:9 ESV / 523 helpful votes
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Matthew 18:10 ESV / 513 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.
Romans 8:14 ESV / 488 helpful votes
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Romans 8:17 ESV / 485 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.
1 John 3:10 ESV / 477 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.
Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 459 helpful votes
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
2 Timothy 3:14-15 ESV / 426 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.
Psalm 127:3 ESV / 424 helpful votes
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 420 helpful votes
Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.
Galatians 3:28 ESV / 414 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.
2 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 396 helpful votes
And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
Proverbs 29:17 ESV / 395 helpful votes
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.
Psalm 113:9 ESV / 389 helpful votes
He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!
Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 385 helpful votes
The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
Exodus 20:12 ESV / 384 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.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 375 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Isaiah 54:13 ESV / 375 helpful votes
All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.
Psalm 8:2 ESV / 370 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.
Deuteronomy 11:19 ESV / 369 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.
Colossians 3:20 ESV / 366 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Romans 8:17-19 ESV / 362 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. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.
John 1:12-13 ESV / 362 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.
Proverbs 1:8-9 ESV / 362 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.
1 John 2:28-3:10 ESV / 359 helpful votes
And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him. 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. 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. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. …
Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 357 helpful votes
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
Colossians 3:21 ESV / 355 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 340 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Matthew 18:2-6 ESV / 338 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.
Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 337 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.
1 John 3:2 ESV / 335 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.
Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 329 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.
1 Peter 2:10 ESV / 322 helpful votes
Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 321 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 314 helpful votes
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
John 11:52 ESV / 314 helpful votes
And not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
Romans 8:14-19 ESV / 308 helpful votes
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 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!” 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. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. …
Genesis 33:5 ESV / 306 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.”
Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 305 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.”
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 303 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.
Matthew 21:15-16 ESV / 299 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’?”
Romans 12:2 ESV / 296 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
1 Peter 2:2-3 ESV / 295 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 6:23 ESV / 295 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Proverbs 20:11 ESV / 294 helpful votes
Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright.
John 16:21 ESV / 293 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.
Romans 5:1-21 ESV / 284 helpful votes
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. …
Deuteronomy 4:9 ESV / 284 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—
Exodus 20:5-6 ESV / 283 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.
Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 277 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.”
2 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 276 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.
Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 275 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.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 273 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 265 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
2 Chronicles 34:1-3 ESV / 263 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.
Matthew 19:14 ESV / 258 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.”
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 257 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.
Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 252 helpful votes
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 250 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.”
1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 250 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.
Romans 8:16-17 ESV / 242 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.
Proverbs 15:5 ESV / 240 helpful votes
A fool despises his father’s instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.
Luke 18:15-17 ESV / 235 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.”
Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 230 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.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 229 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Mark 9:37 ESV / 229 helpful votes
“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”
1 John 3:1-24 ESV / 226 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. 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. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. …
2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 224 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.
Leviticus 19:3 ESV / 219 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.
Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 217 helpful votes
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
Mark 10:14 ESV / 212 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.
Romans 8:32 ESV / 211 helpful votes
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 210 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Philippians 4:19 ESV / 207 helpful votes
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
John 3:30 ESV / 207 helpful votes
He must increase, but I must decrease.”
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 200 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 6:19-20 ESV / 195 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 2:38 ESV / 195 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.
Romans 12:19 ESV / 194 helpful votes
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
Philippians 2:15 ESV / 185 helpful votes
That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 177 helpful votes
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,
Acts 16:31 ESV / 172 helpful votes
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
James 1:5 ESV / 171 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.
Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 165 helpful votes
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Mark 5:34 ESV / 162 helpful votes
And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”
Proverbs 3:12 ESV / 148 helpful votes
For the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
Hebrews 12:9-11 ESV / 141 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.
Galatians 4:7 ESV / 133 helpful votes
So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 122 helpful votes
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
Genesis 6:2 ESV / 113 helpful votes
The sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.
1 John 5:1-13 ESV / 110 helpful votes
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? …
Ephesians 4:1-6 ESV / 105 helpful votes
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, …
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