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Bible Verses About loving your children

12 key scriptures

What does the Bible say about loving your children? Browse 12 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.

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TranslationKey Verse: Ephesians 6:4
King James (KJV)And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

12 Key Scriptures

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Train: or, Catechise in: Heb. in his way
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, vaunteth: or, is not rash
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. house: or, kindred
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. take: Heb. gather me
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

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