Matthew 18:2

Matthew 18:2
And he took a little child, and put him in the middle of them,

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Genesis 48:1
Now after these things, word came to Joseph that his father was ill: and he took with him his sons Manasseh and Ephraim.

Genesis 48:9
And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me in this land. And he said, Let them come near me, and I will give them a blessing.

Genesis 48:10
Now because Israel was old, his eyes were no longer clear, and he was not able to see. So he made them come near to him, and he gave them a kiss, folding them in his arms.

Genesis 48:11
And Israel said to Joseph, I had no hope of seeing your face again, but God in his mercy has let me see you and your children.

Genesis 48:12
Then Joseph took them from between his knees, and went down on his face to the earth.

Genesis 48:13
Then taking Ephraim with his right hand, Joseph put him at Israel's left side, and with his left hand he put Manasseh at Israel's right side, placing them near him.

Genesis 48:14
And Israel, stretching out his right hand, put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands on purpose, for Manasseh was the older.

Genesis 48:15
And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day,

Genesis 48:16
The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth.

Genesis 48:17
Now when Joseph saw that his father had put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it did not seem right to him; and lifting his father's hand he would have put it on the head of Manasseh.

Genesis 48:18
And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the older; put your right hand on his head.

Genesis 48:19
But his father would not, saying, I am doing it on purpose, my son; he will certainly become a nation and a great one; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a great family of nations.

Genesis 48:20
So he gave them his blessing that day, saying, You will be the sign of blessing in Israel, for they will say, May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh; and he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

1 Samuel 1:24
Then when she had done so, she took him with her, with a three-year old ox and an ephah of meal and a skin full of wine, and took him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh: now the child was still very young.

Psalms 115:14
May the Lord give you and your children still greater increase.

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1 Kings 3:7
And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in.

Proverbs 9:6
Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.

Isaiah 55:7
Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

Jeremiah 1:7
But the Lord said to me, Do not say, I am a child: for wherever I send you, you are to go, and whatever I give you orders to say, you are to say.

Ezekiel 18:27
Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul.

Ezekiel 18:28
Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.

Ezekiel 18:29
But still the children of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, are my ways not equal? are not your ways unequal?

Ezekiel 18:30
For this cause I will be your judge, O children of Israel, judging every man by his ways, says the Lord. Come back and be turned from all your sins; so that they may not be the cause of your falling into evil.

Ezekiel 18:31
Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?

Luke 13:24
Do your best to go in by the narrow door, for I say to you, A number will make the attempt to go in, but will not be able to do so.

Luke 13:25
When the master of the house has got up, and the door has been shut, and you, still outside, give blows on the door, saying, Lord, let us in; he will make answer and say, I have no knowledge of where you come from.

John 10:9
I am the door: if any man goes in through me he will have salvation, and will go in and go out, and will get food.

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1 Chronicles 2:55
And the families of scribes who were living at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites, the offspring of Hammath, the father of the family of Rechab.

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Psalms 34:11
Come, children, give attention to me; I will be your teacher in the fear of the Lord.

Proverbs 4:1
Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:

Proverbs 7:24
So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth;

Proverbs 8:17
Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.

Proverbs 8:32
Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.

Proverbs 22:6
If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

Ecclesiastes 11:9
Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

Ecclesiastes 11:10
So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 12:1
Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

Isaiah 28:9
To whom will he give knowledge? and to whom will he make clear the word? Will it be to those who have newly given up milk, and who have only now been taken from the breast?

John 13:33
My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer. Then you will be looking for me: and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, Where I am going you may not come.

2 Timothy 3:15
And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.

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Psalms 115:15
May you have the blessing of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Jeremiah 32:39
And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:

Mark 10:13
And they took to him little children, so that he might put his hands on them: and the disciples said sharp words to them.

1 Corinthians 7:14
For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.

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Ecclesiastes 11:1
Put out your bread on the face of the waters; for after a long time it will come back to you again.

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Jeremiah 45:1
The words which Jeremiah the prophet said to Baruch, the son of Neriah, when he put these words down in a book from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah; he said,

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Ezekiel 18:32
For I have no pleasure in the death of him on whom death comes, says the Lord: be turned back then, and have life.

Matthew 3:2
Saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin; for the kingdom of heaven is near.

Matthew 3:8
Let your change of heart be seen in your works:

Matthew 7:13
Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it.

Matthew 23:13
But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.

Luke 9:33
And when they were about to go away from him, Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here; let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah: having no knowledge of what he was saying.

Luke 14:33
And so whoever is not ready to give up all he has may not be my disciple.

John 14:6
Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me.

Acts 2:38
And Peter said, Let your hearts be changed, every one of you, and have baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will have the Holy Spirit given to you.

Acts 2:40
And with more such words he gave his witness, offering them salvation and saying, Come out from this evil generation.

Acts 3:19
So then, let your hearts be changed and be turned to God, so that your sins may be completely taken away, and times of blessing may come from the Lord;

2 Corinthians 6:17
For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,

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Matthew 5:3
Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

Matthew 18:17
And if he will not give ear to them, let it come to the hearing of the church: and if he will not give ear to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-farmer.

Luke 4:43
But he said to them, I have to give the good news of the kingdom of God in other towns, because that is why I was sent.

John 3:3
Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.

John 3:4
Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for a man to be given birth when he is old? Is he able to go into his mother's body a second time and come to birth again?

John 3:5
Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 13:4
Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;

Ephesians 4:13
Till we all come to the harmony of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to full growth, to the full measure of Christ:

1 Peter 2:1
So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

1 Peter 2:2
Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

1 John 4:6
We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.

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Matthew 17:24
And when they had come to Capernaum, those who took the Temple tax came to Peter and said, Does not your master make payment of the Temple tax?

Matthew 22:21
They say to him, Caesar's. Then he said to them, Give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's.

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Matthew 17:27
But, so that we may not be a cause of trouble to them, go to the sea, and let down a hook, and take the first fish which comes up; and in his mouth you will see a bit of money: take that, and give it to them for me and you.

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Matthew 21:15
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the works of power which he did, and the children crying out in the Temple, Glory to the son of David, they were angry and said to him,

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Matthew 21:16
Have you any idea what these are saying? And Jesus said to them, Yes: have you not seen in the Writings, From the lips of children and babies at the breast you have made your praise complete?

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Luke 2:46
And after three days they came across him in the Temple, seated among the wise men, giving ear to their words and putting questions to them.

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Matthew 20:24
And when it came to the ears of the ten, they were angry with the two brothers.

Matthew 20:25
But Jesus said to them, You see that the rulers of the Gentiles are lords over them, and their great ones have authority over them.

Matthew 20:26
Let it not be so among you: but if anyone has a desire to become great among you, let him be your servant;

Matthew 20:27
And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him take the lowest place:

Matthew 20:28
Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.

Matthew 23:11
But let the greatest among you be your servant.

Luke 9:45
But this saying was not clear to them and its sense was kept secret from them so that they were not able to see it: and they had fear of questioning him about it.

Luke 19:10
For the Son of man came to make search for those who are wandering from the way, and to be their Saviour.

Luke 22:24
And there was an argument among them about which of them was the greatest.

Luke 22:25
And he said, The kings of the Gentiles are lords over them, and those who have authority are given names of honour.

Luke 22:26
But let it not be so with you; but he who is greater, let him become like the younger; and he who is chief, like a servant.

Luke 22:27
For which is greater, the guest who is seated at a meal or the servant who is waiting on him? is it not the guest? but I am among you as a servant.

John 13:4
Got up from table, put off his robe and took a cloth and put it round him.

John 13:14
If then I, the Lord and the Master, have made your feet clean, it is right for you to make one another's feet clean.

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John 13:5
Then he put water into a basin and was washing the feet of the disciples and drying them with the cloth which was round him.

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John 21:19
Now this he said, pointing out the sort of death by which he would give God glory. And after saying this, he said to him, Come after me.

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Luke 14:7
And he gave teaching in the form of a story to the guests who came to the feast, when he saw how they took the best seats; saying to them,

Luke 14:8
When you get a request to come to a feast, do not take the best seat, for a more important man than you may be coming,

Luke 14:9
And then the giver of the feast will come to you and say, Give your place to this man; and you, with shame, will have to take the lowest seat.

Luke 14:10
But when you come, go and take the lowest seat, so that when the giver of the feast comes, he may say to you, Friend, come up higher; and then you will have honour in the eyes of all the others who are there.

Luke 14:11
For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.

Luke 18:14
I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.

John 5:44
How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?

Acts 8:9
But there was a certain man named Simon, who in the past had been a wonder-worker and a cause of surprise to the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was a great man:

Acts 8:10
To whom they all gave attention, from the smallest to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is named Great.

Acts 8:11
And they gave attention to him, because for a long time his wonder-working powers had kept them under his control.

Acts 8:17
Then they put their hands on them, and the Holy Spirit came on them.

Acts 8:19
Give me this power, so that when I put my hands on anyone he may get the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:8
And last of all, as by one whose birth was out of the right time, he was seen by me.

1 Corinthians 15:9
For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God.

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Romans 14:5
This man puts one day before another: to that man they are the same. Let every man be certain in his mind.

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John 20:22
And when he had said this, breathing on them, he said to them, Let the Holy Spirit come on you:

Acts 1:15
And in those days Peter got up among the brothers (there were about one hundred and twenty of them), and said,

Galatians 5:24
And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

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James 1:19
You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

James 1:20
For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.

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Revelation 18:21
And a strong angel took up a stone like the great stone with which grain is crushed, and sent it into the sea, saying, So, with a great fall, will Babylon, the great town, come to destruction, and will not be seen any more at all.

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