That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:


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Psalms 128 3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Proverbs 17 6 Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Ezra 9 12 Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
Psalms 129 6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
Nehemiah 10 30 And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, not take their daughters for our sons:
Jeremiah 31 29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Nehemiah 9 23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
Psalms 45 16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
Isaiah 1 29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
1 John 3 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
Jeremiah 29 6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
Jeremiah 4 30 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
Job 39 4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
Exodus 34 16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
Psalms 78 6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
Ecclesiastes 11 10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
Ezekiel 16 7 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
1 Peter 1 14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
Proverbs 29 21 He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
Psalms 17 14 From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Nehemiah 5 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
Numbers 24 6 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Exodus 23 26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
2 Corinthians 6 13 Now for a recompence in the same, I speak as unto my children, be ye also enlarged.
Psalms 127 4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
Luke 2 40 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
Deuteronomy 4 16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Job 5 25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
Daniel 1 4 Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.
Isaiah 53 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Job 39 16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: her labour is in vain without fear;
Song of Solomon 2 3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Luke 12 27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
1 Peter 1 24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
Psalms 110 3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
Isaiah 47 9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
1 Corinthians 13 11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
2 Kings 17 41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
Isaiah 65 23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
Deuteronomy 4 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
Psalms 92 14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
Ezekiel 1 26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
Isaiah 10 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
Ephesians 4 14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
Isaiah 60 4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
Isaiah 24 13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
1 Chronicles 17 11 And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
Job 8 8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
Ephesians 6 4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 11 19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.