100 Bible Verses About Children
Bible verses about Children
Discover the profound love and value God places on children as revealed through scripture. Exploring Bible verses about children illuminates their inherent worth, their unique role in God's kingdom, and the immense responsibility entrusted to us in nurturing their spiritual growth. Understanding these verses empowers us to see children through God's eyes, fostering a deeper appreciation for their innocence, potential, and the transformative impact they can have on the world. Let these sacred words guide us in raising children with compassion, wisdom, and a fervent dedication to instilling in them a love for God.
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Nehemiah 7:48 (KJV)
The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai,
Bible Verses: Guidance & Blessings for Children
And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, offered:
A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.
The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.
O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth–haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
And Eleazar Aaron’s son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.
And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai,
And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.
And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?
And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God.
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.
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.
The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.
And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:
And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, offered:
And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.
And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord commanded, saying,
The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven.
So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and five.
They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.
My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli.
And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.
Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the Lord God of Israel;
And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the Lord, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
The children of Adin, four hundred fifty and four.
And the Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.
All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.
These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:
Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the Lord.
The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight.
This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
The Bible’s verses on children paint a portrait of profound value and divine blessing. They emphasize the responsibility of parents and the community to nurture, teach, and protect these precious gifts from God. From celebrating the joy of children to instructing parents in godly parenting, these scriptures highlight the importance of instilling faith, wisdom, and moral character from a young age. Reflecting on these verses, we are called to recognize the immense potential within each child and to actively cultivate an environment where they can thrive spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually. Let us be intentional in our roles as parents, mentors, or simply members of society, to champion the well-being of children and guide them towards a life rooted in faith and purpose, remembering they represent the future and a vital part of God's kingdom.