Babies

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. — read the full passage →

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

They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. — read the full passage →

“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!

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.”

When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

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

They came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby was lying in the feeding trough.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. — read the full passage →

A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him. — read the full passage →

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.

“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me. — read the full passage →

He took a little child, and set him in their midst. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, — read the full passage →

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,

You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” — read the full passage →

Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”

Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. — read the full passage →

All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden her son.”

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy!

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — read the full passage →

You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.

The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough.”

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.

He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. — read the full passage →

We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one remaining.

Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.

Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. — read the full passage →

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

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.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

You shall teach them your children, talking 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.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. — read the full passage →

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

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.

The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. — read the full passage →

“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow. — read the full passage →

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

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

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!” — read the full passage →

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

(as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”),

But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant, — read the full passage →

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all who were therein, and its borders, from Tirzah: because they didn’t open to him, therefore he struck it; and all the women therein who were with child he ripped up.

Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken. — read the full passage →

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don’t come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.

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 exercised thereby.

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? — read the full passage →

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray? — read the full passage →

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” — read the full passage →

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

May Yahweh increase you more and more, you and your children.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and 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. — read the full passage →

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.