Bible Verses About Protection of Children

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

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

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

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

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.

And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.

Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

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

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

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.

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

In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

These are the statutes, which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father’s house.

For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

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.

Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.

And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them,

Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.

For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

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

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

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.

Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.