Luke 18:17
"I tell you in solemn truth that whoever will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child, he will never get into it."
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
18A ruler put this question to him. "Good teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
Cross References
Matthew 18:3"In solemn truth I tell you that unless you turn and become like little children, you will not even enter the kingdom of heaven.
1 Peter 1:14Like obedient children, do not fashion yourselves according to the former passions of your days of 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 →