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Bible Verses about โ€œcaring 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.

John 3:16
2236 votes

โ€œFor 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€

1 Timothy 5:8
1400 votes

โ€œBut 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€

Ephesians 6:4
1043 votes

โ€œYou fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.โ€

Proverbs 22:6
1017 votes

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

Psalms 127:3
1003 votes

โ€œBehold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.โ€

Ephesians 6:1
573 votes

โ€œChildren, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.โ€

Psalms 127:4
559 votes

โ€œAs arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.โ€

Psalms 127:5
556 votes

โ€œHappy 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€

Ephesians 6:2
517 votes

โ€œ"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:โ€

Ephesians 6:3
461 votes

โ€œ"that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."โ€

James 1:27
456 votes

โ€œPure 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€

Colossians 3:21
347 votes

โ€œFathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.โ€

Matthew 18:10
153 votes

โ€œSee 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€

Mark 10:14
111 votes

โ€œBut 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€

Mark 10:16
74 votes

โ€œHe took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.โ€

Mark 10:15
67 votes

โ€œMost 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€

Mark 10:13
65 votes

โ€œThey were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them.โ€

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