Luke 18:17
Amen, I say to you: Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a child, shall not enter into it.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
18And a certain ruler asked him, saying: Good master, what shall I do to possess everlasting life?
Cross References
Matthew 18:3And said: Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
1 Peter 1:14As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance:
Matthew Henry on Luke 18:16-18
Christ's Attention to Children. 15 And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them. 16 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. 17 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein. This passage of story we had both in Matthew and Mark; it very fitly follows here after the story of the… Read the whole commentary →