Luke 18:16

A Conservative Version

But having summoned them, Jesus said, Allow the children to come to me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of God.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, become not children in your thoughts. Instead be childlike in wickedness, but in your thoughts become mature.

1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified by the husband, then otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

1 Peter 2:2

as newborn babes, long for the genuine intellectual milk, so that ye may grow by it,

Deuteronomy 31:12

Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and thy sojourner who is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law,

Acts 2:39

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all those in afar, as many as Lord our God may call.

Genesis 21:4

And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

Deuteronomy 29:11

your little ones, your wives, and thy sojourner who is in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood to the drawer of thy water--

2 Chronicles 20:13

And all Judah stood before LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their sons.

Jeremiah 32:39

And I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their sons after them.

Matthew 19:14

But Jesus said, Allow the children, and do not forbid them to come to me, for of such kind is the kingdom of the heavens.

Luke 18:15

And they were also bringing the infants to him, so that he would touch them, but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

Luke 18:17

Truly I say to you, whoever will not receive the kingdom of God as a child, will, no, not enter into it.