Adam knew his wife Eve intimately, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, "I have had a male child with the Lord's help."

He slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she realized that she was pregnant, she looked down on her mistress.

When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob [any children], she envied her sister. "Give me sons, or I will die!" she said to Jacob.

When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, "Who are these with you?" He answered, "The children God has graciously given your servant."

All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. "No," he said. "I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning." And his father wept for him.

May God Almighty cause the man to be merciful to you so that he will release your other brother and Benjamin to you. As for me, if I am deprived of my sons, then I am deprived."

and we answered my lord, 'We have an elderly father and a young brother, the child of his old age. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'

Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

"Whoever strikes his father or his mother must be put to death.

"Whoever curses his father or his mother must be put to death.

"You are not to make any of your children pass through [the fire] to Molech. Do not profane the name of your God; I am the Lord.

"Each of you is to respect his mother and father. You are to keep My Sabbaths; I am the Lord your God.

"Say to the Israelites: Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death; the people of the country are to stone him. I will turn against that man and cut him off from his people, because he gave his offspring to Molech, defiling My sanctuary and profaning My holy name. read more. But if the people of the country look the other way when that man gives any of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death, then I will turn against that man and his family, and cut off from their people both him and all who follow him, prostituting themselves with Molech.

However, he must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire many horses, for the Lord has told you, 'You are never to go back that way again.'

"If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother and doesn't listen to them even after they discipline him, his father and mother must take hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown. read more. They will say to the elders of his city, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he doesn't obey us. He's a glutton and a drunkard.' Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. You must purge the evil from you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

'Cursed is the one who dishonors his father or mother.' And all the people will say, 'Amen!'

At the end of two months, she returned to her father, and he kept the vow he had made about her. And she had never been intimate with a man. Now it became a custom in Israel

Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the Lord had kept Hannah from conceiving.

Each year his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.

David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted, went [home], and spent the night lying on the ground.

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking up the path, some small boys came out of the city and harassed him, chanting, "Go up, baldy! Go up, baldy!" He turned around, looked at them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two female bears came out of the woods and mauled 42 of the youths.

The child grew and one day went out to his father and the harvesters.

He gives the childless woman a household, [making her] the joyful mother of children. Hallelujah!

Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord, children, a reward.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house, your sons, like young olive trees around your table.

Instead, I have calmed and quieted myself like a little weaned child with its mother; I am like a little child.

Listen, my son, to your father's instruction, and don't reject your mother's teaching,

for the Lord disciplines the one He loves, just as a father, the son he delights in.

The one who will not use the rod hates his son, but the one who loves him disciplines him diligently.

A fool despises his father's instruction, but a person who heeds correction is sensible.

Teach a youth about the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a youth left to himself is a disgrace to his mother.

for before the boy knows how to call out father or mother, the wealth of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria will be carried off to the king of Assyria."

The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat. The calf, the young lion, and the fatling will be together, and a child will lead them. The cow and the bear will graze, their young ones will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like an ox. read more. An infant will play beside the cobra's pit, and a toddler will put his hand into a snake's den. No one will harm or destroy on My entire holy mountain, for the land will be as full of the knowledge of the Lord as the sea is filled with water.

He said, "They are indeed My people, children who will not be disloyal," and He became their Savior. In all their suffering, He suffered, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. He redeemed them because of His love and compassion; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of the past. read more. But they rebelled, and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He became their enemy [and] fought against them.

They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through [the fire] to Molech-something I had not commanded them. I had never entertained the thought that they do this detestable act causing Judah to sin!

The streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in them."

"Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will even rise up against their parents and have them put to death.

For I came to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's enemies will be the members of his household. read more. The person who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; the person who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And whoever doesn't take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.

At that time Jesus said, "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned and revealed them to infants.

"I assure you," He said, "unless you are converted and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

"The Lord has done this for me. He has looked with favor in these days to take away my disgrace among the people."

I'm no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired hands.'

When a woman is in labor she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.