Luke 18:16
But Jesus called the children to him. “Let the little children come to me,” he said. “Don't prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to those who are like them.
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Genesis 21:4Abraham circumcised him when Isaac was eight days old, following God's command.
Deuteronomy 29:11your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your firewood and carry your water.
2 Chronicles 20:13All the men of Judah stood before the Lord, together with their wives and children and babies.
Matthew 18:3“I tell you the truth, unless you change the way you think and become like little children, you won't ever enter the kingdom of heaven,” he told them.
1 Corinthians 7:14For a husband who is not a Christian, the marriage relationship is made holy by the Christian wife, and for a wife who is not a Christian, the marriage relationship is made holy by the Christian husband. Otherwise it would mean your children were impure, but now they are holy.
1 Peter 2:2You should become like newborn babies who only want pure spiritual milk, so you can grow in salvation
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 →