Bible Verses about “harming children”

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

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

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

“As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.”

“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. A Song of Ascents.”

“Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.”

“but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.”

“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.”

“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.”

“He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.”

“Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."”

“Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he was thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.”

“They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them.”

“It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.”

“He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!”