Bible Verses about “hurting children”
The Bible contains 20 verses about hurting children across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,”
“doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;”
“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”
“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.”
“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.”
“"The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'”
“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.”
“Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.”
“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.”
“"Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.”
“Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. The things that are to come on them shall make haste."”