143 Bible Verses for Children’s Protection (Spiritual Armor)

1

Ephesians 6:10

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

2

Ephesians 6:11

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

3

Ephesians 6:12

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

4

Ephesians 6:13

Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.

5

Ephesians 6:14

Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

6

Ephesians 6:15

And, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.

7

Ephesians 6:16

In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;

8

Ephesians 6:17

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,

9

Ephesians 6:18

Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,

10

Ephesians 6:19

And also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel,

11

Ephesians 6:20

For which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.

12

Psalm 56:3

When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

13

Isaiah 41:10

So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God.

14

Psalm 46:1

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.

15

Joshua 1:9

Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.

16

Proverbs 18:10

The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.

17

Psalm 121:7-8

The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.

18

Psalm 91:11-12

For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.

19

2 Thessalonians 3:3

But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.

20

Psalm 32:7

You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance.

21

Genesis 16:13

You are the God who sees me.

22

Proverbs 3:5

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.

23

Psalm 118:24

This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

24

Philippians 4:13

I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.

25

Psalm 27:1

The LORD is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?

26

2 Timothy 1:7

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

27

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

28

Isaiah 40:31

But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

29

Deuteronomy 31:6

Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.

30

Proverbs 30:5

Every word of God is flawless; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.

31

Matthew 28:20

I am with you always.

32

Psalm 127:3

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

33

Psalm 139:13-14

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

34

Matthew 18:10

See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

35

Matthew 18:14

In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.

36

Psalm 8:2

Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.

37

Genesis 33:5

And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, ‘Who are these with you?’ Jacob said, ‘The children whom God has graciously given your servant.

38

1 Samuel 1:27-28

For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him. Therefore I have lent him to the Lord. As long as he lives, he is lent to the Lord.

39

Matthew 5:14

You are the light of the world.

40

Isaiah 8:18

Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

41

John 16:21

When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

42

3 John 1:4

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

43

Matthew 18:6

But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

44

Mark 9:42

Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.

45

Luke 17:2

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.

46

Exodus 22:22-24

You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry, and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

47

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

48

Zechariah 7:10

Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.

49

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

50

Ephesians 5:11

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

51

Deuteronomy 27:19

Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

52

Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

53

Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

54

Colossians 3:21

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

55

Deuteronomy 6:6-7

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

56

Proverbs 29:15

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

57

Proverbs 22:15

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

58

Proverbs 13:24

Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

59

Proverbs 23:13-14

Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.

60

Titus 2:4-5

And so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

61

Colossians 3:20

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

62

1 Timothy 5:8

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

63

Proverbs 1:8-9

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

64

Psalm 82:3-4

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

65

Proverbs 31:8-9

Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.

66

Proverbs 24:11-12

Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, ‘Behold, we did not know this,’ does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?

67

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.

68

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

69

Job 29:12-13

Because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him. The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

70

Deuteronomy 24:17

You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow’s garment in pledge.

71

Psalm 10:14

But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.

72

Psalm 68:5

Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

73

Psalm 10:17-18

O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.

74

Hebrews 1:14

Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

75

Lamentations 2:19

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

76

Isaiah 40:11

He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.

77

Hosea 14:3

In you the orphan finds mercy.

78

Psalm 103:13

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

79

Isaiah 49:15-16

Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

80

Isaiah 43:1

But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: ‘Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.’

81

Ezekiel 18:4

Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine.

82

Deuteronomy 10:18

He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.

83

Psalm 145:9

The LORD is good to all.

84

Matthew 19:13-14

Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked them. Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.’

85

Mark 9:36-37

He took a little child whom he placed among them. Taking the child in his arms, he said to them, ‘Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.’

86

Mark 10:13-15

And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, ‘Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.’

87

Matthew 18:2-5

And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, ‘Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me.’

88

Luke 18:16

But Jesus called them to him, saying, ‘Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.’

89

Luke 9:47-48

But Jesus, knowing the reasoning of their hearts, took a child and put him by his side and said to them, ‘Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For he who is least among you all is the one who is great.’

90

Luke 2:40

And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon him.

91

Luke 18:17

Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.

92

Matthew 18:3

Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

93

Mark 10:16

And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.

94

John 11:35

Jesus wept.

95

Matthew 19:14

Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.’

96

Joshua 1:9

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.

97

2 Timothy 3:16-17

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

98

Romans 8:31

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

99

Psalm 34:17-18

When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

100

Psalm 34:7

The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

101

John 14:27

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

102

Romans 8:28

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

103

Colossians 3:2

Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

104

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.

105

Ephesians 4:30

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit.

106

Psalm 119:105

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.

107

Psalm 146:9

The Lord watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

108

1 Timothy 5:16

If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it may care for those who are truly widows.

109

Job 31:16-18

If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it (for from my youth the fatherless grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow).

110

Isaiah 54:13

All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.

111

Philippians 4:6-7

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

112

1 Peter 5:7

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

113

Matthew 7:11

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

114

Matthew 6:26

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

115

Romans 8:15-16

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’ The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.

116

Matthew 14:23

After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray.

117

Philippians 4:4

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

118

Romans 10:13

Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

119

Numbers 6:24

The Lord bless you and keep you.

120

 Luke 16:10

One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

121

 Acts 20:28

Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

122

 1 Peter 4:10

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.

123

 1 John 3:16-18

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

124

 Titus 2:7-8

Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned.

125

 Hebrews 4:14-16

Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

126

 Luke 4:18-19

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.

127

 1 Timothy 4:12

Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.

128

 Acts 16:31

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved.

129

 1 John 3:23

Love one another.

130

 Luke 6:31

Do to others as you would have them do to you.

131

 Ephesians 4:32

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

132

 Psalm 136:1

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever.

133

 1 John 5:3

This is love for God: to obey his commands.

134

 Psalm 150:6

Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!

135

 Psalm 138:1

I will praise thee with my whole heart.

136

 1 Corinthians 10:31

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

137

 Psalm 9:1

I will give thanks to you, LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.

138

 Psalm 100:1

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.

139

 Psalm 95:1

Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.

140

 Proverbs 14:5

An honest witness does not lie, a false witness breathes lies.

141

 Romans 3:23

All people have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

142

 James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.

143

 Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.