The Innocence of Children



      Deuteronomy 1:39 And the little ones that you said would be taken captive, your children who do not yet know good from bad – they will enter the land. I will give it to them and they will take possession of it.

      Isaiah 7:16 But before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right . . .

      Jonah 4:11 But Nineveh has more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well. Should I not be concerned about that great city?

      Matthew 18:3 And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. . . .”

      Romans 9:11-12 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad – in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: not by works but by him who calls – she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”

      1 Corinthians 14:20  . . . In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults.

      Perhaps the following is also pertinent:

      Matthew 21:16 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise” (KJV)


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