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Having A Lot Of Children

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Genesis 1:28

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.”

Psalms 127:3–5

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

Psalms 127:3

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

Psalms 127:1–5

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 →

John 16:21

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.

Proverbs 22:6

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

Proverbs 17:6

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

Psalms 128:3

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

Ephesians 5:18–32

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, — read the full passage →

1 Timothy 2:15

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

Jeremiah 29:11

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.

Proverbs 3:5

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Mark 10:13–16

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 →

Psalms 113:9

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

Genesis 16:10

Yahweh’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude.”

James 1:17

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.

Proverbs 13:24

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

Titus 2:1–15

But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 6:4

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

Matthew 18:10

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.

Genesis 28:14

Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 9:1

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Colossians 3:20

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

Genesis 3:15

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

2 Timothy 3:16

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Isaiah 58:11

and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don’t fail.

Proverbs 13:22

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

Psalms 127:5

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.

Deuteronomy 6:7

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.

Exodus 20:12

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

Genesis 24:60

They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them.”

Matthew 19:1–30

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 5:7

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

1 Timothy 2:14

Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

1 Corinthians 7:1–40

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 →

Jeremiah 49:16

As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.

Isaiah 54:13

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

Psalms 139:13–16

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

Psalms 8:2

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

Genesis 19:18–22

Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord. — read the full passage →

Genesis 19:8

See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”

Genesis 3:1–24

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

1 John 2:1–29

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

Philippians 4:19

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

Philippians 4:6

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

Galatians 4:4

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

1 Corinthians 10:31

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Romans 8:1

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Proverbs 13:16

Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

Job 15:5

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

Genesis 19:30

Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.

2 Timothy 3:14–15

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 →

John 3:16

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.

Matthew 18:1–3

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

Matthew 6:33

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Jeremiah 49:22

Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

Jeremiah 29:8

For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Don’t let your prophets who are in your midst, and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

Jeremiah 23:9

Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.

Psalms 127:2

It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

Job 5:12

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

2 Chronicles 15:7

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.”

Genesis 22:17

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.

Revelation 1:1–20

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, — read the full passage →

2 Timothy 1:7

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Colossians 1:1–29

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

John 8:44

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

Obadiah 1:3

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

Amos 5:19

As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

Amos 4:11

“I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 48:41

Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

Jeremiah 31:12

They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

Jeremiah 20:9

If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can’t.

Jeremiah 14:9

Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; don’t leave us.

Jeremiah 4:10

Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart.”

Isaiah 37:10

“Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

Isaiah 29:5

But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

Isaiah 16:2

For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

Isaiah 8:1–22

Yahweh said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’; — read the full passage →

Song of Solomon 7:11

Come, my beloved, let us go out into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Proverbs 31:1–31

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 22:3

A prudent man sees danger, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

Proverbs 14:18

The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Proverbs 12:23

A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

Proverbs 12:16

A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

Psalms 100:3

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Psalms 37:25

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Psalms 31:12

I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

Psalms 29:1–11

Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength. — read the full passage →

Psalms 23:1–6

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

Judges 15:14

When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.

Judges 7:13

When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow; and he said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”

Joshua 9:4

they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and wine skins, old and torn and bound up,

Deuteronomy 28:14

and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

Deuteronomy 5:21

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

Leviticus 22:25

Neither shall you offer the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner of any of these; because their corruption is in them. There is a defect in them. They shall not be accepted for you.’”

Leviticus 18:26

You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;

Genesis 13:1–18

Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South. — read the full passage →

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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