Bible Verses About Children

and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.

One will say, ‘I am the LORD’s;’ and another will be called by the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand ‘to the LORD,’ and honor the name of Israel.”

“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom,

your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says the LORD, “who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom.”

In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.

But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you; you weren’t salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, for that your person was abhorred, in the day that you were born.

When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, Though you are in your blood, live; yes, I said to you, Though you are in your blood, live.

Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,

that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?

the LORD’s word came to me again, saying,

What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning Eretz-Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?

As I live, says the Lord GOD, you shall not use this proverb any more in Israel.

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.

But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor’s wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity,

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

he who has not lent on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord GOD.

If he fathers a son who is a robber who sheds blood, and who does any one of these things,

or who does not do any of those things, but even has eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor’s wife,

has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

has lent on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? he shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him.

Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;