Luke 18:16
Good News Translation
but Jesus called the children to him and said, "Let the children come to me and do not stop them, because the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

New Revised Standard Version
But Jesus called for them and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs.

Contemporary English Version
So Jesus called the children over to him and said, "Let the children come to me! Don't try to stop them. People who are like these children belong to God's kingdom.

New American Bible
Jesus, however, called the children to himself and said, “Let the children come to me and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But Jesus, calling them together, said: Suffer children to come to me and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But Jesus, calling them together, said: Suffer children to come to me and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

Suffer.

Genesis 47:10-14 And blessing the king, he went out. . . .

Genesis 21:4 And he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him,

Deuteronomy 29:11 Your children and your wives, and the stranger that abideth with thee in the camp, besides the hewers of wood, and them that bring water:

Deuteronomy 31:12 And the people being all assembled together, both men and women, children and strangers, that are within thy gates: that hearing they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and keep, and fulfil all the words of this law:

2 Chronicles 20:13 And all Juda stood before the Lord with their little ones, and their wives, and their children.

Jeremiah 32:39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me all days: and that it may be well with them, and with their children after them.

Acts 2:39 For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, whomsoever the Lord our God shall call.

1 Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife: and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing husband. Otherwise your children should be unclean: but now they are holy.

for.

Matthew 18:3,4 And said: amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. . . .

1 Corinthians 14:20 Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in malice be children: and in sense be perfect.

1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation:

Context
Jesus Blesses the Children
15And they brought unto him also infants, that he might touch them. Which when the disciples saw, they rebuked them. 16But Jesus, calling them together, said: Suffer children to come to me and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. 17Amen, I say to you: Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a child shall not enter into it.…
Cross References
Matthew 19:14
But Jesus said to them: Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such.

Luke 18:15
And they brought unto him also infants, that he might touch them. Which when the disciples saw, they rebuked them.

Luke 18:17
Amen, I say to you: Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a child shall not enter into it.

Luke 18:15
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