'Child' in the Bible

However, you are not [living] in the flesh [controlled by the sinful nature] but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God lives in you [directing and guiding you]. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him [and is not a child of God].

And not only so, but Rebecca being about to have a child by our father Isaac--

according to his calling and not by actions), Rebecca was told, "The older child will serve the younger one."

This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dearly loved and faithful son in the Lord. He will remind you about my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Brothers, do not become children in [your] understanding, but with respect to wickedness be as a child, and in [your] understanding be mature.

and last of all, as to the child untimely born, he appeared to me also.

Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if you are a child, then you are also an heir because of what God did.

But the child of the slave woman was born according to the flesh and had an ordinary birth, while the son of the free woman was born in fulfillment of the promise.

For it is written, "Rejoice, thou barren woman that bearest not, break forth into a joyful cry, thou that dost not travail with child. For the desolate woman has many children--more indeed than she who has the husband."

But just as then the child born according to the flesh persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so also now.

and the proof of him ye know, that as a child serveth a father, with me he did serve in regard to the good news;

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

To Timothy, my true son in the faith.Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Timothy, my son, I am giving you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies previously made about you, so that by them you may strongly engage in battle,

even though she will be saved through the birth of the Child, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, along with good judgment.

To Timothy, my dearly loved son.Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

You, therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

To Titus, my true son in our common faith.Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

appeal to you for my son, Onesimus. I fathered him while I was in chains.

For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child.

Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

The one who says he is in the Light [in consistent fellowship with Christ] and yet habitually hates (works against) his brother [in Christ] is in the darkness until now.

Since you know that He is righteous, be assured also that the man who habitually acts righteously is a child of His.

The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.

Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

We are not to resemble Cain, who was a child of the Evil one and killed his own brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's actions righteous.

The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of Him.

For every child of God overcomes the world; and the victorious principle which has overcome the world is our faith.

We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.

My dear friend, do not follow wrong examples, but right ones. He who habitually does what is right is a child of God: he who habitually does what is wrong has not seen God.

And a great marvel was seen in Heaven-- a woman who was robed with the sun and had the moon under her feet, and had also a wreath of stars round her head, was with child,

And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

And when the dragon saw that he had been cast out into the earth, he persecuted the woman which bore the male child.