9. CHILDREN
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Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is His reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate (Ps.127:3-5).
[HomeARC note (10/98): The Charter states the Family's current principles, policies and attitudes regarding marriage, parents and raising children.]
1. Taking care of children is probably the most important job there is, molding their little lives & teaching them everyday.
2. Those babies of yesterday are the children & the stars of the shows of today!
3. To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself.
4. Children need models more than they need critics.
5. Out of the mouth of babes come words we shouldn't have said in the first place.
6. One of the first things a man notices in a backward country is that the children are still obeying their parents.
7. Half the fun of living is to have children!
8. Remember the good old days when the only jams kids got into were plum, grape & blackberry?
9. If you see handwriting on the wall, your one-year-old probably found a pencil.
10. What children hear at home, doth soon fly abroad.
11. Children are poor men's riches.
12. Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, & he will be what thou wilt.--Ben Franklin.
13. It is hard for parents to lead a child in the straight & narrow way when they're on the other route.
14. Children thrive on praise! It's more important to praise a child for his good works & his good behaviour than it is to scold him for his bad behaviour. Always accentuate the positive!
15. God will bless you as you soak your children in His Word!
16. Children are the greatest psychologists there are!
17. Training a child is like painting a masterpiece.
18. Your children are a reflection of you.
19. Don't get too proud of your children, they're apt to just do the wrong thing at the wrong time, right after you've been bragging about them!
20. Children may "sag" as soon as you brag.
21. "Train up a child in the way he should go, & when he is old he will not depart from it." (Pro.22:6)--He may depart for awhile, but he'll come back & then he'll stick!
22. Even if your parents only prayed with you till you were 5 years old, that gave you the impression & seed of faith!
23. Don't hand me any of that stuff about "Then why did God give children to me, just to take them away again?" That's why He gives us everything, damn it!--Just to give it back to Him for His Glory! If I hadn't given my children to God you wouldn't be here!
24. Never belittle the little things or little ones.
25. It is given to children to be rich in faith.
26. A child not only has to love you, he's also got to fear you & respect you & not be allowed to get away with outright defiance.
27. If you can teach a child, you can teach anybody!
28. Most 12-years-olds are smarter than those that are 50! It's an age of looking honestly at everything & not accepting everything you're told, an age of choice, an age of decision, & that's when most people accept the Lord.
29. You can work for years to build up good habits in a child, & have them torn down in a few minutes by other kids.
30. Children are not a liability!--They're an asset, or God wouldn't have given them!
31. Children are the most sincere people in the World.
32. You can lead a child to the Lord all the time by your example & your love even before he can talk, by talking to him about the Lord & talking to him about Jesus.
33. Every child has got to have a father--even if it's not his own flesh-&-blood!
34. That tiny babe will be a king some day!--That little girl will be one of His queens!
35. God's gift is God's work.
36. Kids go more by what they see than what they hear, more by your actions than just your words.
37. Put yourself in your child's place & you'll have a better understanding of his problem.
38. It takes time & patience & understanding & lots of real love to train a child!
39. Don't forget that one of your most important jobs now is the tender loving care of your "Knew disciples"! The best thing about them is they won't backslide if you remain faithful!
40. Help "know" the "knew" ones & train them in the know-ledge of the Lord!
41. Your aim should be to prepare your children to go out into the World & stand with conviction & be able to give an answer to everyone who asks them.
42. Your children are one of the biggest assets you've got!
43. It's usually your fault when your children catch diseases or colds!
44. That's the most precious gift--God's greatest gift--His Love in a little child--so sweet & beautiful!--Such a treasure!
45. It's a wonderful thing if your children can't even remember when they didn't know Jesus, but have known Him all their lives.
46. The World looks to children for hope & joy & happiness & Godliness & Heavenliness. They're like His little messengers straight from Heaven.
47. Let's please let our children be children as long as we can, shall we?
48. Children are an important mission field.
49. We are one Family, & all of our children are just as much mine as they are yours.
50. What wonder-kids God's given us! More power to Kid Power! They're gonna pass us up!
51. Our children & families are our greatest witnesses, the proofs of the pudding.
52. You teach kids by your attitude & your actions, which speak much louder than your words!
53. Please be prayerful, careful, watchful & diligent in the care of your little ones & don't allow their little lives to be snuffed out or caused lifelong suffering by your own foolishness.
54. What you decide to give or not to give your children, that's what you are!
55. You will surely reap in your children exactly what you sow, especially if you don't discipline them!--That's your job as a parent, to train up your child in the way he should go.
56. Our children are one of our major concerns & one of the greatest proofs of our pudding!
57. Kids don't require a lot of attention, but they require a little. It's the quality that counts.
58. There is nothing that is too small to be noticed & to be paid attention to & to be cautious about & to beware of when it comes to your children's training & their care.
59. Each week you're investing a little bit more in Eternity as you invest in your children, because children are forever! These eternal lives are going to last forever, & everything you've put into them is going to count!
60. Little feet were made to run errands!
61. Capture the youth & you've conquered the future!
62. Your children are the greatest disciples of all, the ones that inherit your own traits & spirituality & spirit, & in a sense, the Lord!--They're clean, God's Word says--& you train them even before they're conceived. Because when you're training yourself, & the Lord's training you, He's also training your children!
63. Even if all the rest of us fail, our children are time bombs ticking away, that are going to explode one of these days & blow this World together!
64. God's Spirit protects & overshadows little children until they have made their choice or come to the age of accountability.
65. Every child's discipline must be tailored for his particular needs, his individual personality.
66. Many adults have a double standard, a stricter one for their children than for themselves!
67. Children are the gift of God, but they're also the work of God, & that gift is a lot of hard work.
68. Your child learns more in the first five years of his life--85% of his total learning--than he'll learn in all the rest!
69. Children are forever!--The only things you have on this Earth that God gives you that you can have forever & will go with you through eternity besides the souls you win!
70. A child's guardian angel stands before the Lord & is constantly protecting him and has the Lord's ear, and in case he needs something, "his angel doth always behold the face of the Father."
71. Your little children are in such close communication with the Lord that they see the Lord Himself!
72. What a comforting thought to know your little ones do always behold the face of Jesus to constantly comfort and reassure them in time of distress or fear!
73. Do your children see Jesus' sweet and kindly face in the night seasons and in sweet dreams to always comfort them even when you're not there?--They do if you love Jesus!--He's there with them if you have Jesus!--Have you? Do they?
74. As the twig is bent, so the tree is grown, & the present is built on the foundations of the past.
75. You can tell that a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from & starts telling where he's going.
76. It often happens that the apple of a parent's eye is the kid who is rotten to the core.
77.A teenager is a little judge who sits on a throne judging everything & everybody as to whether they're right or wrong, & there's nothing in-between!
78. Our children are our biggest attraction, & some day they're going to be our greatest witness & our greatest proof!
79. Praise is one of the most important parts of child-training!
80. As Hannah to the temple gate
Her dearest treasure bore,
So Lord to Thee we consecrate
Our child forever more.
O Saviour, all he is is Thine
And all he yet may be,
Oh shelter him with love divine,
And draw him near to Thee.
81. The factory that produces the most important product is the home.
82. The best education you can give your child is the Word.
83. A law without enforcement is no law at all! A punishment without application is no punishment at all!
84. If a child lives with criticism he learns to condemn.
85. Sophisticated, Worldly-wise,
I searched for God & found Him not,
Until one day, the World forgot,
I found Him in my baby's eyes.
86. Many parents are so anxious to give their children what they didn't have, that they neglect to give them what they did have.
87. The best thing to spend on children is time.
88. What is learnt in the cradle lasts to the tomb.
89. "Sparents" are those who spare the rod when offspring need attention, & they find their troubles multiplied in ways too sad to mention.
90. Christ was one child who knew more than His parents--yet He submitted to them.
91. A diplomatic teacher sent this note home to all parents: "If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home."
92. A child is clean & truth receives, if at least one parent truly believes.
93. No wonder it's tough to be a teenager. Half the grownups tell him to find himself, & the other half tell him to get lost!
94. Guns with mission kids don't fit--
Their hands are just too full of lit!
95. Really, the younger generation isn't so bad, it's just that they have more critics than models.
96. You childcare workers are doing one of the most important and tremendous jobs in our whole ministry, as well as one of the toughest and most trying and difficult!
97. If you scream at each other, your children will scream at each other!
98. The World of tomorrow is what the parents of today make it.
99. Children are like flowers in your garden! They're a gift of God, but you've got to take care of them!
100. The Lord entrusts you with children to show you how much He loves you & how much you need Him.
101. Your little lambs & the souls you've won are all God has given you that can follow you from this world into the next!
102. Nothing is more important than God's children and their care, for they are His Kingdom!
103. We must always have a meek & quiet spirit about us which engenders trust & faith & confidence & peace, rest & assurance in others as well, for our spirits are contagious.
104. You have to cause children to respect you before you can get them to love you.
105. If we can't have teenagers that behave in the Family, we just won't have any teenagers!
106. You can't have teenagers without a father! No woman can control teenage boys unless she's a real toughy! It takes a man that can really lower the boom on'm & apply the rod & sock it to'm!
107. The Devil hates little children, he tries to kill them right & left, he's in the murdering business, because they're close to God, straight from Heaven, & another new member of the Kingdom of God!
108. Little children, little children who love their Redeemer
Are the pure ones, are the bright ones, His loved & His Own.
Like the stars of the morning, His bright crown adorning,
They shall shine in their beauty,
Bright gems for His crown.
109. It'd take half the joy out of living if you didn't have children & a future to look forward to & the joy of watching your children grow!
110. Bringing up children is simple if you don't have any. It's easy for childless people to give advice on raising children.
111. Children are samples of the citizenry of Heaven!--Little angels dropped from the sky!
112. Children are what give life to this World! Joy & beauty & thrills & excitement & [the fruit of] sex & everything is children, that's the ultimate!
113. Two years old, that's the time to get saved, & they'll do it just because you tell them to!
114. Anybody who can keep the attention of little children has really got to put something into it--lots of action, lots of motion & lots of noise!
115. Problem children are usually the result of problem parents!
116. When God gives you children, then your first duty to God is to those children! That is God's work!
117. Never tell a little child anything that's not so or any of these big fairy tales about the stork brought you & Santa Claus & all that baloney, because he believes you, he really trusts you!
118. When you're reading kids stories, always be sure to differentiate between the ones that are true & the ones that aren't true.
119. I don't think children should just be allowed free rein to watch any movies they want without supervision & without your choice & selection.
120. Children need discipline, but it must always be tempered with love & mercy.--Remember that prayer? You always have to weigh their motives.
121. May God help us all to be good stewards of the most precious gifts He's given us: Our children! We really can't afford to lose any! Please treasure & protect yours!
122. If somehow you haven't dwelt in the Word, kept the Word & taught your children the Word & made them examples of the Word, then you have failed.
123. If you are not absorbing the Word yourself & living the Word & preaching the Word & practicing the Word & teaching your children the Word & making them good examples of the Word, you're failing.
124. If you hold your children back from God's best, God will surely take them away from you, or cause them to be a disappointment & a heartbreak; but if you give them to God, you can't lose. Your children don't belong to you; they belong to the Lord.
125. If I hadn't given my children to God, you wouldn't be here! If I hadn't forsaken mine for Christ's sake, you wouldn't even have yours!--Nor today's Letters!
126. Take your children litnessing & provisioning & learn to use your children for God's glory.
127. Train your children in the way they should go as disciples, not as school products.
128. Our children ought to feel loved by all Family members.
129. Our children are the children of the Family, therefore the entire Family is responsible for them.
130. Our children & the example of our own families can do more to win hearts with the living proof than all the singing & dancing & skits & show biz in the whole World!
131. God puts the Kingdom of His Own children first!--Do you?
132. Children have an intuition for sincerity & honesty & truthfulness. They are very sensitive in the spirit & can pretty well sense who's good & who's bad, who's honest & who's a liar!
133. Probably the final greatest influence on your life outside of the Lord is your children. They influence you to do good, be good & try to do what's right & show them what's right.
134. The best kind of so-called punishment should be chastening or child-training, something that will teach them something, train them & help them to learn the lesson & help them never to make the same mistake again.
135. You shouldn't punish a child for doing something wrong if he didn't know it was wrong.
136. You'll find your own children have higher standards for you than sometimes you have for yourself.
137. Small children have feelings & they must be tenderly protected from thinking that we don't love them or we don't care.
138. It's never wise to leave your child or have your child leave you without a real loving good-bye session to let the child know that you love them & that you'll be back soon.
139. I believe you can lead a child to the Lord as soon as he is able to talk.
140. You can lead your child to Jesus now! Do it today! Tomorrow may be much harder! The sooner the better.
141. The fewer rules you have the better. Don't make rules so hard that the child can't keep them. If you make the rules too hard, then they can get rebellious & throw them all to the wind!
142. If you don't pay children enough attention then they know one sure way of getting your attention--doing something you don't like!
143. Put yourself in your child's place & then you may have a better understanding of his problem.
144. When a child is afflicted, God is dealing with the parents or those who are responsible for that child.
145. You cannot always protect your children forever from all evil everywhere.
146. If children never had any trouble at all, if they never had any little accidents or sickness or anything, how would you ever teach them about trusting the Lord & how to pray?
147. There's no reason why any of our children should be ashamed of their faith or their food or their Family or any of their beliefs. They ought to have the guts & conviction to be taught by their parents that they are better than other children.
148. Your children will very likely do a bigger job for God than you have done or ever will do, if you will only train, teach & lead them right & set a good example.
149. Every time you don't say no, that means yes as far as they're concerned.
150. Kids learn faster from other kids than any other way.
151. You need to operate in the spirit when disciplining a child.
152. It's always good to prepare children for new experiences they're going to have & even possible disappointments. To hold kids' attention, you've really got to give them action.
153. I think that children should sing happy childlike songs, not big heavy deep adult sad message songs.
154. Children must be taught the difference between outright lying & mere pretending & play-acting as we do in our skits.
155. Children are great mimics, great mimes, & this is mostly how they learn, by imitation.
156. We must teach children the difference between reality & imagination, between the truth & lying.
157. It's not right to encourage a child to deliberately lie or to tolerate it or allow it, no matter how cute or clever it might be.
158. When adults get frightened, fear is contagious & children catch it too!
159. Don't ever lie & deceive children.
160. I don't believe in taking kids to see any movie in which there is a lot of violence. In fact, small children ought not to be taken to any kind of unpleasant movies.
162. You can't expect most children to sit & listen to a long talk & sermon.
163. Most children are more sensitive & more easily hurt & more fragile than most adults, but on the other hand they're usually more resilient & bounce back quicker.
164. You don't have to spend a great deal of time with children to make them know you really appreciate them.
165. Put yourself in as close a situation as you can think of to your child's situation & think about how you would feel--then you can get a better understanding of him!
166. Put yourself in the children's place as much as possible & try to be understanding & explain as much as possible.
167. It's natural for children to pick up the negative & the bad because we are born in sin & we are born sinners & we have to learn how to change.
168. Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
169. Children are samples of the citizenry of Heaven!--Little angels dropped from the sky! They're really samples of Heaven until they are corrupted & polluted here on Earth.
170. Children need to be able to see the other side & know the difference & choose the good & eschew the evil.
171. With children nothing is impossible, & all things are possible in the World of make-believe & imagination.
172. A child often lives in a dream World. Just be sure they don't dwell there too much & lose contact with reality. Don't rebuke them for sometimes having their heads in the clouds--just keep their feet on the ground!
173. One little remark, & children may never forget it!
174. A Jesus baby is a testimony to your love & sacrifice for Jesus & others. "Greater love hath no man than this!" (Jn.15:13)--And to the Lord's love for you, to trust you with the creation & care of an everlasting immortal life to enjoy forever!
175. Children & childlike folks seem to need pictures of Jesus & Bible stories.
176. The little minds of our children are so impressionable!--They seldom ever forget what they see!
177. Parents should preview movies before they're shown to kids!--Or know the general theme or characteristics of the series to be sure it's good for them. The criterion is not "will it hurt'm" but "is it good for'm."--Is it edifying, profitable, inspiring & does it teach a good lesson? Most cartoons do not.
178. A boy has two jobs: One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.
179. Teenagers are extremists. It takes them a few years to learn moderation & realize that there is a certain in-between & that not everything is all bad or all good, including their parents.
180. Teenagers are young adults. God has made them to want independence at that age. He has made them to want to make their own decisions & to be free once they've been taught & trained & reared.
181. Every teenager has become a little judge of what is right & what is wrong, & is judging everything by their own conscience, actually by the training you have given them, & usually their judgments are very extreme & dictatorial & they're quite positive when they're right & positive when you're wrong!
182. There are times when you just have to let teenagers make their own decisions. If you've trained them right, they'll almost invariably, eventually make the right decision, either through bitter experience or just through obedience because they know you & the Lord are right & they know they're wrong.
183. "When they are old they will not depart from it." (Pr.22:6) They may depart from you for awhile & they may depart even from your rules & standards, etc., & want a taste of this World & want to try out having their own way, but they'll soon find out that their mama & daddy were right, & God was right, but they just want to try & see, test it out for themselves.
184. If kids can't get attention by being good, they can get it by being naughty!
185. You have got to decide on what rules must be obeyed without fail & without exception & what rules can be sometimes relaxed & exceptions made. And you have to have the wisdom of God to know the difference, which is which.--Which ones you must enforce without fail & which you can be merciful about. Even God does that.
186. Under the Law of Love God has even more rigidly enforced some rules, but He has relaxed some others where they're not as tough. You have to have the wisdom of the Lord to know the difference, when to stick to your guns & when to give up & let children have their way.
187. Each child is a personality all their own & each one has to be dealt with according to their own particular characteristics & personality.
188. Don't make any rules you don't have to. The fewer rules you have the better.
189. We should do with our children as God is with us: He tries to persuade us to do things through the right loving motivation because we want to do what's right, because we love Him & we love others, not just because we're made to, forced to, or because of fear of punishment; that's the old law!
190. For a child to be trained by love takes a lot more time & patience, but they'll be a far better child & much more obedient if they are persuaded to obey through love, rather than by breaking their will & forcing them to obey for fear of punishment!
191. Some parents have really been tough on their kids, hard, cruel & mean, & even if they were right, the kids never felt any love, no real concern, no reasoning, no rationalization, no explaining, no motivation, & so they never learned love, love of God, love of parents, love of others. They just never learned the right motivation. They only did it because they had to & were made to & they would only do as much as they were made to do, whereas love goes much further, even all the way. It'll go to the death & die for someone else, to do the right thing. And that's the way you have to be with children.
192. Some parents break their child's stubborn will by force, but that child will always be stubborn anyhow whenever he gets a chance. He'll only obey the law as long as the law enforcer is there & the minute he gets out of sight of his parents he will go wild & won't know how to handle freedom or choice!
193. The best law is Love & along with Love comes reasoning, persuasion, explaining, teaching, the Word & all the rest so that the children can make their own decisions, because they'll stick to it far better if they decide to do it themselves because they want to do right! That'll go a lot further than only doing right because you're there to make'm!
194. If the gentling & the persuading & the love & the reasoning & the leading & the teaching doesn't work & they're still stubbornly wilfully disobedient, then you've got to crack the whip.
195. Some parents never forget to punish when their kids are bad, but they forget to reward when their kids are good!
196. After it's really been made clear & children understand what you're talking about & you know it & they know it & they go ahead & test you again, that's time to apply the hand!
197. When you're disciplining children, don't ever make a threat or a warning that you don't fulfil. Because if you warn them not to do a certain thing & promise them a punishment & they do it just to test you, & then you don't give them the chastisement you promised, they'll figure, "Well, I didn't get in trouble that time, so I'll try it again."
198. Inconsistent discipline is the worst kind of discipline! It's no discipline at all. You have to be consistent. Be frank, be fair, be honest, be loving, but be firm & then be consistent.
199. Don't make your rules so strict that you're going to be sorry if you do have to keep them or make others keep them.
200. One of the worst things you can do is to give punishment that is too severe, too harsh, more than the crime or disobedience really justifies.
201. With children, you need to make it very clear what the rules are, & one of the best things you can do is to get them to agree to the rules.
202. Try to let children make a decision themselves to obey & be good, without threatening. Forbear threatening if you can, although I've found it does a lot of good sometimes.
203. You've gotta keep kids busy! They like to work & do things, but they have a little hard time thinking up things to do, so you've gotta think'm up for'm.
204. Our greatest responsibility right now is our own children! We need to mold their minds & educate them & inspire them & encourage them, we really need to build up their faith.
205. Children should not have to be involved nor burdened with matters which are above their sphere & their line of duty or their comprehension or even their capability of bearing these things.
206. If children ask you a question you should try to answer it immediately. They're important & they need to be paid attention to. If you just brush them aside like something else is more important, pretty soon they get the impression that you don't think they're important at all.
207. Sometimes when you're with children you just have to have fun with them; everything doesn't have to be educational. For goodness sake, let your hair down & have a little fun once in awhile!
208. Thank the Lord for our children! I think they have had superior training, background, teaching & experience above any children perhaps that have ever existed on the face of this Earth. They have been taught pure doctrine, real enlightenment, freedom & a natural attitude toward the natural things of life. They're learning to live in the way God originally created man to live.
209. We have a more healthy, normal, sane relationship & religion than any other that I know of, & our children are becoming the living proof of that!--Smart, well-educated, well-behaved, understanding, wise, full of faith & wisely trained in the nurture & admonition of the Lord. I think our children are the best kids on Earth.
210. Our children are going to be the salvation of the future! They're going to be God's terrorists of the Tribulation!--Rising up in opposition to the Antichrist government & defying it & performing miracles & God doing mighty signs & wonders to protect them & keep them & help them to continue to preach the Gospel in spite of everything. God's going to take care of them right through to the end & they're going to see Jesus when He comes.
(See also No. 315, 330B, 371, 376, 389, 397, 400, 582, 587, 606, 608, 619, 687, 688, 708, 715, 718, 722, 728, 737, 739, 744-746, 753, 773, 779, 780, 782, 785-790, 794, 795, 827, 863, 827, 830, 835, 878, 900, 915, 987, 990, 995, 1043, 1107, 1108, 1109, 1135, 1136, 1137, 1138, 1141, 1142, 1218, 1219, 1220, 1396, 1397, 1398, 1512, 1527, Story of Davidito, Techi's Life Story, HH2, Childcare Handbook I, II, III.)
211. EXO.4:2 And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand?
212. EXO.20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
213. LEV.19:3 Fear every man his mother, and his father.
214. 1SA.2:11b And the child did minister unto the Lord before Eli the priest.
215. 1SA.2:18 But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
216. 1SA.11:6 A little child shall lead them.
217. PSA.144:12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace.
218. PRO.8:32,33 Hearken unto Me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep My ways. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
219. PRO.10:1 A wise son maketh a glad father.
220. PRO.13:1 A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
221. PRO.17:6. Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
222. PRO.17:25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
223. PRO.20:11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
224. PRO.20:20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
225. PRO.28:7 Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son.
226. ISA.11:6b A little child shall lead them.
227. ISA.28:9,10 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.
228. MAL.3:5 I will be a swift witness against...those that oppress...the widow, and the fatherless.
229. MAT.18:3-6 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in My Name receiveth Me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in Me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
230. MAT.18:10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in Heaven their angels do always behold the face of My Father which is in Heaven.
231. MAT.19:14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto Me: for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.
232. MAR.7:27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
233. MAR.9:36,37 And He took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when He had taken him in His arms, He said unto them, Whosoever shall receive one of such children in My Name, receiveth Me: and whosoever shall receive Me, receiveth not Me, but Him that sent Me.
234. MAR.9:42 And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in Me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
235. MAR.10:14b,15 Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not: for of such is the Kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.
236. 1CO.13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became man, I put away childish things.
237. EPH.6:1,2 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise).
238. COL.3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
239. HEB.2:13 Behold I and the children which God hath given me.
240. 3JO.4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
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