Children Are A Blessing

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

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.

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

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.

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.”

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

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

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

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 →

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

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.”

“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.”

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways. — read the full passage →

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

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.”

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.

but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

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 →

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.

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

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite: — read the full passage →

‘Yahweh bless you, and keep you. — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

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

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

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

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

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 →

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

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

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and give birth to a son, and will call his name ‘Jesus.’

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

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow, — read the full passage →

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

“Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me.”

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

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.

My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth. — read the full passage →

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

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. — read the full passage →

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table. — read the full passage →

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. — read the full passage →

Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth, — read the full passage →

At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. — read the full passage →

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

She called out with a loud voice, and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother.”

Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother.” — read the full passage →

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.” — read the full passage →

The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it be so, why do I live?” She went to inquire of Yahweh.

Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

After these days Elizabeth, his wife, conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying, — read the full passage →

If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. — read the full passage →

He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.” He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.

Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

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

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

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

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

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”

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.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

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.

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. — read the full passage →

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.

Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose trust Yahweh is. — read the full passage →

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her: