Psalm 127:3
3 "...Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a real blessing..."
Gn 2:18-24
18 "...Then the LORD God said, 'It is not good that the man should
be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.'19 So out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
20 The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him.
21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his
ribs and closed up its place with flesh; 
22 and the rib which the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
23 Then the man said, 'This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.'
24 Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh..."
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
-- John Bowring
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the
-- John Bowring
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the
greatest of these is charity.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity
, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
"In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the satisfaction for our sins."~John 4:19
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity
, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away."In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the satisfaction for our sins."~John 4:19
~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 reme
mber his commandments to do them.
(Psalm 103:17,18)
mber his commandments to do them.(Psalm 103:17,18)
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
--Proverbs 13:22
The house of the righteous shall stand.
--Proverbs 12:7
Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments. His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.(Psalm 112:1,2)
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
(Psalm 27:10)
