Verse 16

and Jesus having called them near, said, `Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 31:12 : 12 `Assemble the people, the men, and the women, and the infants, and thy sojourner who `is' within thy gates, so that they hear, and so that they learn, and have feared Jehovah your God, and observed to do all the words of this law;
  • Acts 2:39 : 39 for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.'
  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,
  • 1 Cor 7:14 : 14 for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
  • Gen 21:4 : 4 and Abraham circumciseth Isaac his son, `being' a son of eight days, as God hath commanded him.
  • Gen 47:10-14 : 10 And Jacob blesseth Pharaoh, and goeth out from before Pharaoh. 11 And Joseph settleth his father and his brethren, and giveth to them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh commanded; 12 and Joseph nourisheth his father, and his brethren, and all the house of his father `with' bread, according to the mouth of the infants. 13 And there is no bread in all the land, for the famine `is' very grievous, and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan are feeble because of the famine; 14 and Joseph gathereth all the silver that is found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn that they are buying, and Joseph bringeth the silver into the house of Pharaoh.
  • Deut 29:11 : 11 your infants, your wives, and thy sojourner who `is' in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water --
  • 2 Chr 20:13 : 13 And all Judah are standing before Jehovah, also their infants, their wives, and their sons.
  • Jer 32:39 : 39 and I have given to them one heart, and one way, to fear Me all the days, for good to them, and to their sons after them:
  • Matt 18:3-4 : 3 and said, `Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens; 4 whoever then may humble himself as this child, he is the greater in the reign of the heavens.