aSee Luke 22:32
bch. 19:14; Mark 10:15; Luke 18:17; [Ps. 131:2; 1 Cor. 14:20; 1 Pet. 2:2]
c[ch. 5:19, 20]
dch. 20:27; 23:11, 12
e[See ver. 3 above]
fFor ver. 13-15, see Mark 10:13-16; Luke 18:15-17
gMark 10:48
hch. 18:3
i[Mark 9:39]
jMatt. 18:3
k[ch. 9:39]
l[John 3:3, 5]
m[Luke 8:13; James 1:21]
nEph. 4:14; Heb. 5:12, 13
o[Ps. 131:2; Isa. 28:9; Rom. 16:19]; See Matt. 18:3
pch. 2:6
qEph. 4:22, 25, 31; Col. 3:8
rSee Matt. 18:3
s1 Cor. 3:2; Heb. 5:12, 13

Matthew 18:2-4

2And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them 3and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you aturn and bbecome like children, you cwill never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 dWhoever humbles himself like this child is the egreatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:13-15

Let the Children Come to Me

13 fThen children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples grebuked the people, 14but Jesus said, h“Let the little children icome to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” 15And he laid his hands on them and went away.

Mark 10:14-15

14But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, j“Let the children come to me; kdo not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. 15 lTruly, I say to you, whoever does not mreceive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”

1 Corinthians 14:20

20Brothers, ndo not be children in your thinking. oBe infants in evil, but in your thinking be pmature.

1 Peter 2:1-2

A Living Stone and a Holy People

1 qSo put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 2 rLike newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual smilk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
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