Bible Verses about Children

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• But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”
  Matthew 19:14kingdomheaven
• These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; and 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 up.
  Deuteronomy 6:6-7lawfamily
• Train up a child in the way he should go,
  and when he is old he will not depart from it.
  Proverbs 22:6righteousnessfamily
• Can a woman forget her nursing child,
  that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
  Yes, 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.
  Isaiah 49:15-16lovefamilycompassion
• All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
  Hebrews 12:11righteousnesspeacepunishment
• Children’s children are the crown of old men;
  the glory of children is their parents.
  Proverbs 17:6family
• You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
  Ephesians 6:4lawfamily
• Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
  Ephesians 5:1following
• Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
  1 John 5:21idols
• I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.
  3 John 1:4joytruth
• Blessed are the peacemakers,
  for they shall be called children of God.
  Matthew 5:9blessingpeace
• They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
  Acts 16:31faithsalvationfamily
• For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
  Galatians 3:26-27faithbaptismclothing
• A fool despises his father’s correction,
  but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
  Proverbs 15:5Fatherwisdommind
• For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
  Romans 8:14obedienceSpirit
• See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
  1 John 3:1loveFatherworld
• But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
  1 Timothy 5:8familyrelationships
• But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name.
  John 1:12faithFather
• Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!
  Deuteronomy 5:29lawobedienceblessing
• 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 which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.
  Deuteronomy 4:40lawobedienceblessing
• The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God.
  Romans 8:16GodSpirit
• For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
  Romans 8:19creationFather
• Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him just as he is. Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
  1 John 3:2-3purificationfamilyheaven
• For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
  Romans 8:15fearSpiritslavery
• For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.
  Ephesians 5:8lightlife