Luke 18:16

New English Translation

But Jesus called for the children, saying, “Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Cross References

Genesis 21:4

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do.

2 Chronicles 20:13

All the men of Judah were standing before the Lord, along with their infants, wives, and children.

Jeremiah 32:39

I will give them a single-minded purpose to live in a way that always shows respect for me. They will want to do that for their own good and the good of the children who descend from them.

Matthew 19:14

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

Luke 18:15

Now people were even bringing their babies to him for him to touch. But when the disciples saw it, they began to scold those who brought them.

Luke 18:17

I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”

Acts 2:39

For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and the unbelieving wife because of her husband. Otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

Deuteronomy 29:11

your infants, your wives, and the foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water –

Deuteronomy 31:12

Gather the people – men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages – so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the Lord your God and carefully obey all the words of this law.

1 Peter 2:2

And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,