Luke 18:17
Truly I say to you, whoever will not receive the kingdom of God like a child will definitely not enter it.”
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In Context
18A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Cross References
Matthew 18:3and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you turn and become like little children, you will in no way enter the kingdom of heaven.
1 Peter 1:14As obedient children, do not conform yourselves to the desires that you followed when you were ignorant.
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 →