Today we will be dealing with 20 bible verses about parents love for their children
We all were once Children before we became parents. We can imagine the joy we felt in our heart when we were told we will be having our children, becoming a parent was probably the greatest gift God has given you. We can imagine the joy we felt when a baby started growing inside of us, the immeasurable joy we felt and how we couldn’t wait to meet our little one. Children are God’s gift from us and also obvious God’s wants us to cherish them,love them and nurture them.
We carry so much love for our children and even the bible told us to love them all equally and unconditionally. As parents we are responsible for the proper upbringing of our children, ensuring they don’t starve, providing a nourishing meals and environment for them for their physical, emotional, and spiritual develop. Children are blessings from God, and so is being a parent. Though raising kids comes with it’s challenges but we as parents are meant to trust God and hand our children over to God as He said we should not suffer the children from going to Him.
These Bible verses about children and parenting not only provide guidance, but also remind you that God will protect them as you hand over your kids affair to Him.
1. Psalm 103:13
As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
2. Psalm 127:3-5
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
3. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
4. Proverbs 13:24
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
5. Philippians 2:1-4
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
6. Proverbs 15:1-8
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good. A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit. A fool despises his father’s instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.
7. 1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
8. Mark 10:13-16
And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.
9. Ephesians 6:1-4
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
10. Deuteronomy 11:19
You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
11. John 3:16-17
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
12. 2 Timothy 3:14-15
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
13. 1 John 3:1
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
14. Deuteronomy 4:9
Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children.
15. Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
16. Deuteronomy 6:6-7
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
17. Mark 9:36-37
And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them, “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.
18. Isaiah 54:13
All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.
19. Colossians 3:14
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
20. Matthew 19:13-14
Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.
