Bible Verses About Desire for Children

The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him:

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

From men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.

The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.

His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.