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 19:14
kingdom | heaven
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 6:6-7
law | family
Train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6
righteousness | family
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 49:15-16
love | family | compassion
Children’s children are the crown of old men;
the glory of children is their parents.
Proverbs 17:6
family
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 12:11
righteousness | peace | punishment
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:4
law | family
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
Ephesians 5:1
following
I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.
3 John 1:4
joy | truth
Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
1 John 5:21
idols
Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called children of God.
Matthew 5:9
blessing | peace
They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Acts 16:31
faith | salvation | family
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 3:26-27
faith | baptism | clothing
A fool despises his father’s correction,
but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
Proverbs 15:5
Father | wisdom | mind
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
Romans 8:14
obedience | Spirit
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 3:1
love | Father | world
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 5:8
family | relationships
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 5:29
law | obedience | blessing
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 1:12
faith | Father
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God.
Romans 8:16
God | Spirit
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 4:40
law | obedience | blessing
For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
Romans 8:19
creation | Father
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 8:15
fear | Spirit | slavery
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 3:2-3
purification | family | heaven
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.
Ephesians 5:8
light | life