Verse 16

But Iesus called them vnto him, and said, Suffer the babes to come vnto mee, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdome of God.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 31:12 : 12 Gather the people together: men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may heare, and that they may learne, and feare the Lorde your God, and keepe and obserue all the wordes of this Lawe,
  • Acts 2:39 : 39 For the promise is made vnto you, and to your children, and to all that are a farre off, euen as many as the Lord our God shall call.
  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brethren, be not children in vnderstanding, but as concerning maliciousnes be children, but in vnderstanding be of a ripe age.
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 As newe borne babes desire that sincere milke of the woorde, that yee may growe thereby,
  • 1 Cor 7:14 : 14 For the vnbeleeuing husband is sanctified to the wife, and the vnbeleeuing wife is sanctified to the husbande, els were your children vncleane: but nowe are they holie.
  • Gen 21:4 : 4 Then Abraha circumcised Izhak his sonne, when he was eight dayes olde, as God had commanded him.
  • Gen 47:10-14 : 10 And Iaakob tooke leaue of Pharaoh, & departed from the presence of Pharaoh. 11 And Ioseph placed his father, and his brethren, and gaue them possession in the lande of Egypt, in the best of the land, euen in the lande of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12 And Ioseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his fathers houshold with bread, euen to the yong children. 13 Now there was no bread in all the land: for the famine was exceeding sore: so that the land of Egypt, and the land of Canaan were famished by reason of the famine. 14 And Ioseph gathered all the money, that was found in the land of Egypt, & in the land of Canaan, for the corne which they bought, & Ioseph layd vp the money in Pharaohs house.
  • Deut 29:11 : 11 Your children, your wiues, and thy stranger that is in thy campe from the hewer of thy wood, vnto the drawer of thy water,
  • 2 Chr 20:13 : 13 And all Iudah stoode before the Lorde with their yong ones, their wiues, and their children.
  • Jer 32:39 : 39 And I wil giue them one heart and one way that they may feare me for euer for ye wealth of them, and of their children after them.
  • Matt 18:3-4 : 3 And sayd, Verely I say vnto you, except ye be conuerted, and become as litle children, ye shall not enter into the kingdome of heauen. 4 Whosoeuer therefore shal humble himselfe as this litle childe, the same is the greatest in the kingdome of heauen.