TOPICAL BIBLE
Children
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Proverbs 22:15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.Proverbs 23:13Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.Proverbs 23:14Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.Proverbs 23:15My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine:Proverbs 23:16yes, my heart will rejoice, when your lips speak what is right.Proverbs 23:22Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.Proverbs 23:24The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.Proverbs 23:25Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!Proverbs 23:26My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.Proverbs 27:11Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.Proverbs 28:7Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.Proverbs 28:24Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, “It’s not wrong.” He is a partner with a destroyer.Proverbs 29:3Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.Proverbs 29:15The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.Proverbs 29:17Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.Proverbs 30:11There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.Proverbs 30:17“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.Ecclesiastes 4:13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.Ecclesiastes 11:9Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.Ecclesiastes 11:10Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”Isaiah 3:5The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.Isaiah 14:20You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named forever.Isaiah 14:21Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.Isaiah 28:9Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?Isaiah 28:10For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.Isaiah 40:11He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.Isaiah 44:3For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring:Isaiah 44:4and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.Isaiah 44:5One will say, ‘I am Yahweh’s;’ and another will be called by the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand ‘to Yahweh,’ and honor the name of Israel.”Isaiah 54:1“Sing, barren, you who didn’t bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.Isaiah 54:13All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children.Isaiah 65:6“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom,Isaiah 65:7your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together,” says Yahweh, “who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom.”Isaiah 65:23They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them.Jeremiah 1:5“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came forth out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”Jeremiah 1:6Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”Jeremiah 1:7But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for to whoever I shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you shall speak.Jeremiah 3:25Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.”Jeremiah 7:17Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?Jeremiah 7:18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.Jeremiah 20:15Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, A boy is born to you; making him very glad.Jeremiah 31:29In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.Jeremiah 31:30But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.Jeremiah 32:18who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is his name;Jeremiah 32:30For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 32:35They 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 fire to Molech; which I didn’t command them, neither did it come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.Jeremiah 32:39and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and of their children after them:Jeremiah 49:11Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.Lamentations 3:27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.Daniel 6:24The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.Hosea 11:3Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; but they didn’t know that I healed them.Hosea 14:3Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”Micah 7:6For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.Zechariah 8:5The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”Zechariah 11:16For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.Zechariah 11:17Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”Malachi 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’Malachi 3:5I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.Matthew 2:16Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.