Matthew 19:14
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14 but Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not stop them, for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.”(A)
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Matthew 18:3
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3 and said, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.(A)
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Luke 18:16-17
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16 But Jesus called for them and said, “Let the children come to me, and do not stop them, for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. 17 Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.”(A)
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1 Corinthians 14:20
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20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults.(A)
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Mark 10:14
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14 But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not stop them, for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs.
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Matthew 11:25
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Jesus Thanks His Father
25 At that time Jesus said, “I thank[a] you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants;(A)
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- 11.25 Or praise
1 Peter 2:1-2
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The Living Stone and a Chosen People
2 Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander.(A) 2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation(B)—
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1 Samuel 1:24
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24 When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with a three-year-old bull,[a] an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. She brought him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh, and the child was young.(A)
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- 1.24 Q ms Gk Syr: MT three bulls
1 Samuel 1:22
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22 But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, that he may appear in the presence of the Lord and remain there forever; I will offer him as a nazirite for all time.”[a](A)
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- 1.22 Cn Compare Q ms: MT lacks I will offer him as a nazirite for all time
1 Samuel 1:11
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11 She made this vow: “O Lord of hosts, if only you will look on the misery of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant but will give to your servant a male child, then I will set him before you as a nazirite until the day of his death. He shall drink neither wine nor intoxicants,[a] and no razor shall touch his head.”(A)
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- 1.11 Cn Compare Gk Q ms: MT child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life
Judges 13:7
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7 but he said to me, ‘You shall conceive and bear a son. So then, drink no wine or strong drink and eat nothing unclean, for the boy shall be a nazirite to God from birth to the day of his death.’ ”
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Genesis 17:24-26
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24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.(A) 25 And his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26 That very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised,
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1 Samuel 2:18
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The Child Samuel at Shiloh
18 Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy wearing a linen ephod.(A)
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Genesis 21:4
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4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.(A)
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Genesis 17:7-8
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7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.(A) 8 And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding, and I will be their God.”(B)
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