Matthew 18:1-7

Living Bible

18 About that time the disciples came to Jesus to ask which of them would be greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven!

² Jesus called a small child over to him and set the little fellow down among them, ³ and said, “Unless you turn to God from your sins and become as little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven. ⁴ Therefore anyone who humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. ⁵ And any of you who welcomes a little child like this because you are mine is welcoming me and caring for me. ⁶ But if any of you causes one of these little ones who trusts in me to lose his faith,^[a] it would be better for you to have a rock tied to your neck and be thrown into the sea.

⁷ “Woe upon the world for all its evils.^[b] Temptation to do wrong is inevitable, but woe to the man who does the tempting.