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Early Christian writings treat children as worthy of care, teaching, and honor, and they often use children as a picture for innocence, simplicity, and trust in God. Ignatius, Polycarp, Clement of Rome, and the Didache all tell parents to teach children the Lord’s ways, while Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Methodius use children to speak about humility, praise, and spiritual growth. The Bible passages most often tied to this theme are the calls to teach children diligently and Jesus’ words to let the little children come to him. The evidence is broad and steady on training and honoring children, but thinner and more indirect on some later questions, like baptism and exact age-related meaning.
But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
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Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.
Context for the children being brought to Jesus.
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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.
Core Gospel saying about letting little children come to Jesus.
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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.
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And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Classic command to teach God’s words diligently to children.
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For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
Children are called holy in a marital context
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And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Jesus says people must become like children.
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Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.
Direct saying about receiving the kingdom like a little child.
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Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Clear command for children to obey parents.
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And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
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And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.
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And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
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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.
Parallel teaching command for children.
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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.
Psalm line often linked to praise from children.
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For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
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And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
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And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
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One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
Household leadership includes children in reverence.
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Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
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And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
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For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
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For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Pattern of parents commanding children after them.
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And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
Household baptism; weak for child-specific doctrine
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As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
General newborn-babes image of spiritual milk.
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And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
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And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
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And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
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And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
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For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
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Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
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Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
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Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
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For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
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Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
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Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.
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Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.
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And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
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But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever.
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And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh.
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Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
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Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
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Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother. And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
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In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:
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And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.
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And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
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But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
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I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
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And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,
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I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
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Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
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Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
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But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
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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.
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But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
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But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
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And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
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And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
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And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
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And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
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If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated: Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn: But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
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When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
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Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
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And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
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Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
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That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
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But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
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And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
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Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
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Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
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They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
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And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
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And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be? And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured. And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me. And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
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But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
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And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
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For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
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And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
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And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
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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:
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And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
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Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
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And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
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And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
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But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
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And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
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And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.
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Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
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Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
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And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were sore displeased,
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And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. 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. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.
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And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.
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Gather the people together, men and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
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And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
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Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
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Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
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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;
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My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
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Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
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My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
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Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
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Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
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Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
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My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
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Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
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Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
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But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
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He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
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And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
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And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
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Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
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And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
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And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
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Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
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And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
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But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
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Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
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And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.
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And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
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But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
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And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
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For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:
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And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
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And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
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But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
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O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
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Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
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And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.
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And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.
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And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
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And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
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And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
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And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
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And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
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And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
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Ephesians 6:1 KJV · 11 words
Listen“For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.”
Galatians 3:26 KJV · 13 words
Listen“Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.”
Psalms 128:4 KJV · 12 words
Listen“Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.”
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Listen“But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.”
Galatians 4:2 KJV · 13 words
Listen“But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.”
1 Samuel 2:18 KJV · 14 words
Listen“And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.”
Luke 2:47 KJV · 12 words
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Psalms 148:12 KJV · 9 words
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“Fathers, “bring up your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord;” and teach them the holy Scriptures, and also trades, that they may not indulge in idleness.”
“The prophetic Spirit also marks us out as children. It is said that the children went out to meet the Lord, carrying branches of olive trees or palm trees, and crying out, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord," Matthew 21:9. This means light, glory, and praise, along with a pra…”
“Today holy David rejoices with great joy. He has been robbed of his lyre by little children, and with them also, in the Spirit, he leads the dance and rejoices together, as he did long ago before the ark of God, 2 Samuel 6:14. He mingles musical harmony with them, and sweetly lisps in a stammering voice, "Blessed is H…”
“O you who are disobedient concerning the wisdom of the righteous, "turn your hearts to your children," Luke 1:17. Learn the mysteries of God. The very thing that is happening bears witness that it is God who is being praised in this way by untaught tongues. "Search the Scriptures," as you have heard from the Lord in J…”
“We have ample means of answering those who are given to carping. For we are not called children and infants because our training is childish and contemptible, as those who are puffed up because of knowledge have slanderously claimed. At once, when we were regenerated, we attained that perfection for which we longed. F…”
“[The early Christians] called those who practised a godly guilelessness, children, [as is stated by Papias in the first book of the Lord’s Expositions, and by Clemens Alexandrinus in his Pædagogue.]”
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