Children
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Children’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 361–384 of 563 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
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A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
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A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
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He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
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Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
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Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “It’s not wrong,” is a partner with a destroyer.
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There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.
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“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.
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Rejoice, 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.
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Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
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Isaiah 3:5 OT
The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honorable.
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Let 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 Yahweh our God’s voice.”
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Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
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The 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.
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“For 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.
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Ezekiel 22:7 OT
In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
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Micah 7:6 OT
For 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.
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Mark 13:12 NT
“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
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Romans 1:30 NT
backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
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For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
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Genesis 9:25 OT
He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”
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Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
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Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters. The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man…
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Genesis 21:9 OT
Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.