1Sam1..27 "For this child I prayed, and the LORD has granted me my petition which I asked of Him.
28 "Therefore I also have lent him to the LORD; as long as he lives he shall be lent to the LORD." So they worshipped the LORD there.
 
1Sam3..Now the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; no widespread revelation.
7 (Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, nor was the word of the LORD yet revealed to him.)
8 And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. So he arose and went to Eli, and said, "Here I am, for you did call me." Then Eli perceived that the LORD had called the boy.
19 So Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.
20 And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established as a prophet of the LORD.
21 Then the LORD appeared again in Shiloh. For the LORD revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.
 
Mk10.."Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of GOD.
15 "Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of GOD as a little child will by no means enter it."
16 And He took them up in His arms, laid hands on them, and blessed them.
 
Gen22..9 Then they came to the place of which GOD had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
 
Gen28..2 "Arise, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.
 
1Tim3..4 One who rules his own house well, having children in submission with all reverence.
 
Tit1..6 If a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or insubordination.

Ps51..5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

    Last month, scientists reported that a child whose grandmother smoked while pregnant with the child's mother may have twice the risk of developing asthma as a child whose grandma didn't flood her [unborn baby] with carcinogens. Remarkably, the risk from grandma's smoking was as great as or greater than from mom's.
 
    The findings, says Peter Nathanielsz of the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, "stretch the unwanted consequences of poor nutrition across generations."
 
    In people, the type of "nutritional insult" to the [unborn baby] doesn't seem to matter. Too few calories, too little protein, too few other nutrients can all lead to diabetes, hypertension and other ills decades later. "That suggests that what links diet to adult diseases is something quite fundamental," says Simon Langley-Evans of the University of Nottingham, England. The key suspects: changes in DNA activity in the [unborn baby] or in the balance of hormones reaching it via the placenta.

John Fountain, a journalism professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was a reporter at the Washington Post from 1995 to 2000. He is the author of True Vine: A Young Black Man's Journey of Faith, Hope and Clarity (Public Affairs).
 

1Cor6..9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of GOD? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminates, nor homosexuals.
18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Wis3..16 But the children of adulterers will not reach maturity, and the seed of unlawful union will be destroyed.
17 For even if they attain length of life, they will be of no account, and in the end their old age will be without honour.
18 And if their end come swiftly, they will be without hope or consolation on the day of decision.

Sir23..22 So also with the woman who is unfaithful to her husband, and offers as heir her son by a stranger.
23 First, she has disobeyed the law of the Most High; second, she has wronged her husband; third, in her wanton adultery she has raised up children by another man.
24 Such a woman will be dragged before the assembly, and her punishment will extend to her children.
25 Her children will not take root, her branches will not bring forth fruit.
26 She will leave an accursed memory, her disgrace will never be blotted out.

    Criminality is the most extreme manifestation of the unsocialized young male. Another is the proportion of young males who choose not to work. Among black males ages 20-24, for example, the percentage who were not working or looking for work when the first numbers were gathered in 1954 was 9%. That figure grew during the 1960s and 1970s, stabilizing at around 20% during the 1980s. The proportion rose again, reaching 30% in 1999.
 
    Why has the proportion of unsocialized young males risen so relentlessly? In large part, I would argue, because the proportion of young males who have grown up without fathers has also risen relentlessly. The indicator here is the illegitimacy ratio -- the percentage of live births that occur to single women. It was a minuscule 4% in the early 1950s, and it has risen substantially in every subsequent decade. The ratio reached the 25% milestone in 1988 and the 33% milestone in 1999. As of 2003, the figure was 35% -- of all births, including whites. The black illegitimacy ratio in 2003 was 68%. By way of comparison: The illegitimacy ratio that caused Daniel Patrick Moynihan to proclaim the breakdown of the black family in the early 1960s was 24%.

    When Ronald Reagan took office, 0.9% of the population was under correctional supervision. That figure has continued to rise. When crime began to fall in 1992, it stood at 1.9%. In 2003 it was 2.4%. Crime has dropped, but criminality has continued to rise.
 

Jn5:39 You search the scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life;
 
Jn6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing.
 
2Cor1..21 Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us, GOD,
22 Who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

2Cor3:6 ...ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
 
2Cor5:5 ...GOD, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

2Thes2..10 ... did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this reason GOD will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

2Thes1..8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know GOD, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our LORD Jesus Christ.
9 These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the LORD and from the glory of His power.

Ps94..20 Shall the throne of iniquity, which devises evil by law, have fellowship with You?

Gal5.. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.

Rom6..22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of GOD, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.

Amos3..7 Surely the LORD GOD does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.

Heb1..1 In many parts and in many ways of old GOD having spoken to the fathers in the prophets, in these last days spoke to us in (the) Son.