Children

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Leviticus 19:3 OT

  “ ‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

• Proverbs 6:20 OT

  My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

• Ephesians 6:1 NT

  Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

• 1 Timothy 5:4 NT

  But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

• Leviticus 19:32 OT

  “ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

• 1 Peter 5:5 NT

  Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

• Ezekiel 20:18 OT

  I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

• Psalms 113:9 OT

  He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

• Genesis 15:2 OT

  Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”

• Genesis 15:3 OT

  Abram said, “Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”

• Jeremiah 22:30 OT

  Yahweh says, “Record this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his days; for no more will a man of his offspring prosper, sitting on David’s throne, and ruling in Judah.”

• 1 Samuel 1:6 OT

  Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

• 1 Samuel 1:7 OT

  So year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s house, her rival provoked her. Therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.

• Luke 1:25 NT

  “Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”

• Genesis 30:1 OT

  When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

• 1 Samuel 1:5 OT

  but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.

• 1 Samuel 1:8 OT

  Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

• 1 Samuel 1:10 OT

  She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

• 1 Samuel 1:11 OT

  She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his…

• Luke 1:13 NT

  But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

• Genesis 25:21 OT

  Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

• 1 Samuel 1:27 OT

  I prayed for this child, and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

• Ezekiel 16:4 OT

  As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut. You weren’t washed in water to cleanse you. You weren’t salted at all, nor wrapped in blankets at all.

• 1 Samuel 1:22 OT

  But Hannah didn’t go up, for she said to her husband, “Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and stay there forever.”