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Luke 18:16

WEB

16Jesus summoned them, saying, “Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

KJV

16But 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.

BSB

16But Jesus called the children to Him and said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them! For the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

FBV

16But 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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Matthew 18:3-4

3and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. 4Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.


1 Corinthians 14:20

20Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.


1 Corinthians 7:14

14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.


1 Peter 2:2

2as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,


Deuteronomy 31:12

12Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and the foreigners who are within your gates, that they may hear, learn, fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law,


Genesis 21:4

4Abraham [+] circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.


Acts 2:39

39For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”


Deuteronomy 29:11

11your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,


2 Chronicles 20:13

13All Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.


Genesis 47:10-14

10Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

11Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.

13There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. 14Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.