Bible Verses about โcaring for childrenโ
The Bible contains 17 verses about caring for children across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โFor 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.โ
โBut if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.โ
โYou fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.โ
โTrain up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.โ
โBehold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.โ
โChildren, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.โ
โAs arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.โ
โHappy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. A Song of Ascents.โ
โ"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:โ
โ"that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."โ
โPure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.โ
โFathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.โ
โSee 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.โ
โBut 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.โ
โHe took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.โ
โMost certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."โ
โThey were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them.โ
