Exodus 20:12
getty images“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.”
2Deuteronomy 11:18-19
getty images“You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”
3Mark 9:36-37
getty images“And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them, ‘Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.’”
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4James 1:27
getty images“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”
5John 16:21
getty images“A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.”
6Colossians 3:20
getty images“Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.”
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7Proverbs 20:11
getty images“Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright.”
8Deuteronomy 4:9
getty images“Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.”
9Psalm 103:13
getty images“As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.”
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10Psalm 8:2
getty images“Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.”
11Proverbs 22:6
Getty Images“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
12Isaiah 54:13
Getty Images“All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.”
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13Proverbs 1:8-9
Getty Images“Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.”
14Psalm 127:3
Getty Images“Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him.”
15Matthew 19:14
Getty Images“Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.’ ”
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16Proverbs 17:6
Getty Images“Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.”
173 John 1:4
Getty Images“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.”
18Deuteronomy 5:29
Getty Images“Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!”
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19Ephesians 6:4
Getty Images“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.”
20Matthew 18:1-3
Getty Images“At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?’ And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, ‘Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.’ ”
Madoline Markham is the assistant managing editor for Country Living, where she covers shopping, home decor, news, and culture.
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