Luke 18:16

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“Jesus 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.”

— WEB

“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.”

— KJV

“But Jesus called them unto him, saying, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for to such belongeth the kingdom of God.”

— ASV

Bible Verses About Children

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Matthew 18:3-4 "and 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."
1 Corinthians 14:20 "Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature."
1 Corinthians 7:14 "For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children wou…"
Deuteronomy 31:12 "Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and the foreigners who are within your gates, that they may hear, and tha…"
1 Peter 2:2 "as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,"
Acts 2:39 "For 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.”"
Genesis 21:4 "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 the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draw…"

Commentary

But Jesus--"much displeased," says Mark (Mar 10:14); and invaluable addition. said--"SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME"--"AND FORBID THEM NOT," is the important addition of Matthew (Mat 19:14) and Mark (Mar 10:14). What words are these from the lips of Christ! The price of them is above rubies. But the reason assigned, "FOR OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD," or "of heaven," as in Mat 19:14, completes the previous information here conveyed; especially as interpreted by what immediately follows: "AND HE TOOK THEM UP IN HIS ARMS, PUT HIS HANDS UPON THEM, AND BLESSED THEM" (Mar 10:16). It is surely not to be conceived that all our Lord meant was to inform us, that seeing grown people must become childlike in order to be capable of the Kingdom of God, therefore they should not hinder infants from coming to Him, and therefore He took up and blessed the infants themselves.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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