Bible Verses about Children

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• But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.”
  Matthew 19:14kingdomheaven
• Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise.
  Deuteronomy 6:6-7lawfamily
• Train children in the right way,
  and when old, they will not stray.
  Proverbs 22:6righteousnessfamily
• Can a woman forget her nursing child,
  or show no compassion for the child of her womb?
  Even these may forget,
  yet I will not forget you.
  See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands;
  your walls are continually before me.
  Isaiah 49:15-16lovefamilycompassion
• Now, discipline always seems painful rather than pleasant at the time, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
  Hebrews 12:11righteousnesspeacepunishment
• Grandchildren are the crown of the aged,
  and the glory of children is their parents.
  Proverbs 17:6family
• And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
  Ephesians 6:4lawfamily
• Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
  Ephesians 5:1following
• I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
  3 John 1:4joytruth
• Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
  1 John 5:21idols
• Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
  Matthew 5:9blessingpeace
• They answered, “Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
  Acts 16:31faithsalvationfamily
• For in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
  Galatians 3:26-27faithbaptismclothing
• A fool despises a parent's instruction,
  but the one who heeds admonition is prudent.
  Proverbs 15:5Fatherwisdommind
• For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
  Romans 8:14obedienceSpirit
• See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
  1 John 3:1loveFatherworld
• And whoever does not provide for relatives, and especially for family members, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
  1 Timothy 5:8familyrelationships
• If only they had such a mind as this, to fear me and to keep all my commandments always, so that it might go well with them and with their children forever!
  Deuteronomy 5:29lawobedienceblessing
• But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God.
  John 1:12faithFather
• It is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
  Romans 8:16GodSpirit
• Keep his statutes and his commandments, which I am commanding you today for your own well-being and that of your descendants after you, so that you may long remain in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.
  Deuteronomy 4:40lawobedienceblessing
• For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God.
  Romans 8:19creationFather
• Beloved, we are God's children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is. And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
  1 John 3:2-3purificationfamilyheaven
• For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba! Father!”
  Romans 8:15fearSpiritslavery
• For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light.
  Ephesians 5:8lightlife