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Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 146 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 / 123 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 ESV / 87 helpful votes
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
Matthew 18:10 ESV / 76 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.
Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 66 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.
Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 61 helpful votes
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 61 helpful votes
Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.
Matthew 19:14 ESV / 60 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.”
Colossians 3:20 ESV / 57 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Proverbs 29:17 ESV / 56 helpful votes
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.
Exodus 20:12 ESV / 56 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.
Isaiah 54:13 ESV / 55 helpful votes
All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.
Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 54 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 13:24 ESV / 54 helpful votes
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 50 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 / 49 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.
Mark 10:13-16 ESV / 48 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.
Colossians 3:21 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Romans 8:14 ESV / 47 helpful votes
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Proverbs 20:11 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright.
3 John 1:4 ESV / 43 helpful votes
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
2 Timothy 3:14-15 ESV / 43 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.
Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 42 helpful votes
The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
Luke 18:16 ESV / 41 helpful votes
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.
Psalm 8:2 ESV / 40 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.
Psalm 113:9 ESV / 39 helpful votes
He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!
Mark 10:14 ESV / 38 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.
Proverbs 15:5 ESV / 38 helpful votes
A fool despises his father’s instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 38 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.
John 16:21 ESV / 37 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 21:15-16 ESV / 37 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’?”
Genesis 33:5 ESV / 37 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.”
John 1:12 ESV / 36 helpful votes
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Mark 9:37 ESV / 36 helpful votes
“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”
Proverbs 10:1 ESV / 36 helpful votes
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
Matthew 18:2-6 ESV / 35 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.
Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 34 helpful votes
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.
Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 34 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.”
Matthew 5:9 ESV / 34 helpful votes
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 32 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.
James 1:17 ESV / 31 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 4:12 ESV / 31 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.
Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
Galatians 3:26 ESV / 31 helpful votes
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
Romans 8:16 ESV / 30 helpful votes
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 30 helpful votes
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.
Deuteronomy 11:19 ESV / 30 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.
Acts 16:31 ESV / 28 helpful votes
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
1 John 3:1 ESV / 26 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.
John 3:16 ESV / 26 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 9:36-37 ESV / 26 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.”
Matthew 19:13-15 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” And he laid his hands on them and went away.
Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 25 helpful votes
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
Leviticus 19:3 ESV / 25 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 23:13-14 ESV / 24 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.
Hebrews 12:9-11 ESV / 23 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.
Romans 8:19 ESV / 23 helpful votes
For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.
Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 23 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.”
Deuteronomy 4:9 ESV / 23 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—
1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 22 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 Peter 2:2-3 ESV / 22 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.
2 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 22 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.
Isaiah 49:15-16 ESV / 22 helpful votes
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
Romans 8:15 ESV / 21 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!”
Luke 17:2 ESV / 21 helpful votes
It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.
Proverbs 13:1 ESV / 21 helpful votes
A wise son hears his father’s instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 21 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.
1 John 3:2-3 ESV / 20 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. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 20 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.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 20 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.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 20 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. …
1 John 5:21 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
Galatians 3:26-27 ESV / 19 helpful votes
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 19 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.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 18 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Luke 18:15-17 ESV / 18 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.”
Psalm 128:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
Exodus 20:5-6 ESV / 18 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.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 17 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Isaiah 38:19 ESV / 17 helpful votes
The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness.
Matthew 18:1-3 ESV / 16 helpful votes
At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” 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.
Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,
Genesis 18:19 ESV / 16 helpful votes
For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”
Luke 2:52 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.
Matthew 18:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes
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.
Ecclesiastes 12:1 ESV / 15 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”;
Deuteronomy 4:40 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”
1 Corinthians 14:20 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
Matthew 19:13-14 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”
Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 14 helpful votes
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 20:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes
The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!
Psalm 115:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes
May the Lord give you increase, you and your children!
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Proverbs 19:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.
Proverbs 17:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes
A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.
Deuteronomy 30:1-3 ESV / 12 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 compassion on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.
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