When Elisha arrived at the house, there was ¹  the child lying dead on his bed.

Train ¹  a child ²  in the way that he should go, ³  and when he is old he will not turn from it. ⁴ 

Folly is bound up ¹  in the heart of a child, ²  but the rod of discipline ³  will drive it far from him.

Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

I am appealing ¹  to you concerning my child, whose spiritual father I have become ²  during my imprisonment, ³  that is, Onesimus,

Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, had no children to the day of her death.

Then David prayed to ¹  God for the child and fasted. ²  He would even ³  go and spend the night lying on the ground.

I tell you the truth, ¹  whoever does not receive ²  the kingdom of God like a child ³  will never ⁴  enter it.”

On ¹  the eighth day ²  they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name ³  him Zechariah after his father.

I tell you the truth, ¹  whoever does not receive ²  the kingdom of God like a child ³  will never ⁴  enter it.”

He got up on the bed and spread his body out over ¹  the boy; he put his mouth on the boy’s ²  mouth, his eyes over the boy’s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy’s palms. He bent down over him, and the boy’s skin ³  grew warm.

After they had gone, an ¹  angel of the Lord ²  appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod ³  is going to look for the child to kill him.”

She went home and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed ¹  as he said to himself, ²  “Can ³  a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? ⁴  Can Sarah ⁵  bear a child at the age of ninety?” ⁶ 

Elisha ¹  went back and walked around in the house. ²  Then he got up on the bed again ³  and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

When a woman gives birth, she has distress ¹  because her time ²  has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being ³  has been born into the world. ⁴ 

The Lord said to Abraham, “Why ¹  did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really ²  have a child when I am old?’

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared ¹  a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. ² 

The king then said, “Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other!”

“Brother ¹  will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against ²  parents and have them put to death.