For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.
But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Children's children are the crown of old men; And the glory of children are their fathers.
and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
and I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
Train up a child in the way he should go: And when he is old, he will not depart from it.
But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, And his righteousness unto children's children;
To such as keep his covenant, And to those that remember his commandments to do them.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
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.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: They shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.