Good Children
33 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
29 sections
- Adduced As a Motive for Submission to God
- Attend to Parental Teaching
- Children in the Temple
- Daniel
- David
- Esther
- Honor the Aged
- Illustrative of a Teachable Spirit
- Isaac
- Jephthah's Daughter
- Job
- John the Baptist
- Joseph
- Josiah
- Know the Scriptures
- Make Their Parents' Hearts Glad
- Obadiah
- Obey Parents
- Observe the Law of God
- Partake of the Promises of God
- Samson
- Samuel
- Shall be Blessed
- Show Love to Parents
- Spirit of, a Requisite for the Kingdom of Heaven
- Take Care of Parents
- The Lord is With
- Their Obedience to Parents is Well Pleasing to God
- Timothy
Adduced As a Motive for Submission to God
- Hebrews 12:9 Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?
Attend to Parental Teaching
- Proverbs 13:1 A wise son heeds his father’s discipline, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.
Children in the Temple
- Matthew 21:15–16 But the chief priests and scribes were indignant when they saw the wonders He performed and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” …
Daniel
- Daniel 1:6 Among these young men were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
David
- 1 Samuel 17:20 So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out to its position and shouting the battle cry.
- Psalm 71:5 For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
Esther
- Esther 2:20 Esther still had not revealed her lineage or her people, just as Mordecai had instructed. She obeyed Mordecai’s command, as she had done under his care.
Honor the Aged
- Job 32:6–7 So Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite declared: “I am young in years, while you are old; that is why I was timid and afraid to tell you what I know. …
Illustrative of a Teachable Spirit
- Matthew 18:4 Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Isaac
- Genesis 22:6–10 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. He himself carried the fire and the sacrificial knife, and the two of them walked on together. …
Jephthah's Daughter
- Judges 11:34 And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.
- Judges 11:36 “My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me as you have said, for the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.”
Job
- Job 29:4 when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,
John the Baptist
- Luke 1:80 And the child grew and became strong in spirit; and he lived in the wilderness until the time of his public appearance to Israel.
Joseph
- Genesis 45:9 Now return quickly to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.
- Genesis 46:29 Joseph prepared his chariot and went there to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, embraced him, and wept profusely.
Josiah
- 2 Chronicles 34:3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, …
Know the Scriptures
- 2 Timothy 3:15 From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Make Their Parents' Hearts Glad
- Proverbs 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.
- Proverbs 29:17 Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will bring delight to your soul.
Obadiah
- 1 Kings 18:12 I do not know where the Spirit of the LORD may carry you off when I leave you. Then when I go and tell Ahab and he does not find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth.
Obey Parents
- Genesis 28:7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
- Genesis 47:30 but when I lie down with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me with them.” Joseph answered, “I will do as you have requested.”
Observe the Law of God
- Proverbs 28:7 A discerning son keeps the law, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.
Partake of the Promises of God
- Acts 2:39 This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off — to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
Samson
- Judges 13:24 So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the LORD blessed him.
Samuel
- 1 Samuel 3:19 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and He let none of Samuel’s words fall to the ground.
Shall be Blessed
- Proverbs 3:1–4 My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments; …
- Ephesians 6:2–3 “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), …
Show Love to Parents
- Genesis 46:29 Joseph prepared his chariot and went there to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, embraced him, and wept profusely.
Spirit of, a Requisite for the Kingdom of Heaven
- Matthew 18:3 “Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Take Care of Parents
- Genesis 45:9 Now return quickly to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.
- Genesis 45:11 And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’
- Genesis 47:12 Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their families.
The Lord is With
- 1 Samuel 3:19 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and He let none of Samuel’s words fall to the ground.
Their Obedience to Parents is Well Pleasing to God
- Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
Timothy
- 2 Timothy 3:15 From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Related topics
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.