'Children' in the Bible

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

You who love the Lord, hate evil;He protects the souls of His godly ones (believers),He rescues them from the hand of the wicked.

The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;

O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.

to cause their children to perish among the nations and be scattered among many lands.

Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

May the Lord be constantly aware of them, and cut off the memory of his children from the earth!

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.

When Israel came out of Egypt, the children of Jacob from a people whose language was strange to them;

The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

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.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.

If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.

Give praise to the Lord, O children of Israel: give praise to the Lord, O sons of Aaron:

Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

How blessed will be the one who seizes your young children and pulverizes them against the cliff!

I know [with confidence] that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted,And [will secure] justice for the poor.

Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;

Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

To make known to the children of men his mighty acts, and the glorious splendour of his kingdom.

For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:

He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye the LORD.

Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

[Confine yourself to your own wife.] Let your children be yours alone,And not the children of strangers with you.

Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

"To you, O {people}, I call, and my cry is to the children of humankind.

rejoicing in the world of his earth, and my delight [was] with the children of humankind.

Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

Discipline your children, and they will give you rest, and they will give delight to your soul.

lest they drink And forget the law, And pervert the judgment of any of the children of affliction.

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

And I applied my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: this grievous occupation hath God given to the children of men to weary themselves therewith.

I searched in my heart how to cherish my flesh with wine, while practising my heart with wisdom; and how to lay hold on folly, till I should see what was that good for the children of men which they should do under the heavens all the days of their life.

I acquired male slaves and female slaves, as well as children [born in my] house. I also had livestock, cattle, and flocks more than anyone who [was] before me in Jerusalem.

I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces; I got me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the children of men, a wife and concubines.

I said in my heart, It is thus with the children of men, that God may prove them, and that they should see that they themselves are but beasts.

For what befalleth the children of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other, and they have all one breath; and man hath no pre-eminence above the beast: for all is vanity.

Who knoweth the spirit of the children of men? Doth it go upwards? and the spirit of the beasts, doth it go downwards to the earth?

A man who is all alone with no companion, he has no children nor siblings; yet there is no end to all his toil, and he is never satisfied with riches. He laments, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is futile and a burdensome task!

If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

because stillborn children arrive in pointlessness, leave in darkness, and their names are covered in darkness.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to do evil.

This is an evil among all that is done under the sun, that one thing befalleth all: yea, also the heart of the children of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live; and after that, they have to go to the dead.

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are taken with the snare, like them are the children of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

They cut meat on the right, but they're still hungry, and they devour also on the left, but they're not satisfied; each devours the flesh of his own children.

But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord's land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners whose prisoners they were; and they will be rulers over their masters.

Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.

In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.

Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have given birth to wind; no salvation has come to the earth through us, and no children have come into the world.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? To children just weaned from milk? To those just taken from the breast?

But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.

Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:

Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?

The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

"Don't be afraid, for I am with you; I'll bring your children from the east, and gather you from the west.

For I will pour water on the parched ground and cause streams to flow on the dry land. I will pour my spirit on your offspring and my blessing on your children.

This is what the Lord says, the Creator of the signs: "Question me about my children, or give me orders about the work of my hands.

Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, and your children like its granules. Their name would not have been cut off and eliminated from my presence.