Verse 16

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.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 31:12 : 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.
  • Acts 2:39 : 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 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,
  • 1 Cor 7:14 : 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.
  • Gen 21:4 : 4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do.
  • Gen 47:10-14 : 10 Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence. 11 So Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them territory in the land of Egypt, in the best region of the land, the land of Rameses, just as Pharaoh had commanded. 12 Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children. 13 But there was no food in all the land because the famine was very severe; the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away because of the famine. 14 Joseph collected all the money that could be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan as payment for the grain they were buying. Then Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s palace.
  • Deut 29:11 : 11 your infants, your wives, and the resident foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water–
  • 2 Chr 20:13 : 13 All the men of Judah were standing before the LORD, along with their infants, wives, and children.
  • Jer 32:39 : 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.
  • Matt 18:3-4 : 3 and said,“I tell you the truth, unless you turn around and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven! 4 Whoever then humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.