Matthew 18
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Matthew 18:2-7

2And He called a child to Himself and set him among them, 3and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you 1change and 2become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. 4So whoever will humble himself like this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5And whoever receives one such child in My name, receives Me; 6but 3whoever 4causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to 5sin, it is better for him that a 6heavy millstone be hung around his neck, and that he be drowned in the depths of the sea.

7“Woe to the world because of its 7stumbling blocks! For 8it is inevitable that 9stumbling blocks come; but woe to the person through whom the 10stumbling block comes!

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Notes

  1. 1. Matthew 18:3 Lit turn ↩
  2. 2. Matthew 18:3 Matt 19:14; Mark 10:15; Luke 18:17; 1 Cor 14:20; 1 Pet 2:2 ↩
  3. 3. Matthew 18:6 Mark 9:42; Luke 17:2; 1 Cor 8:12 ↩
  4. 4. Matthew 18:6 Matt 17:27 ↩
  5. 5. Matthew 18:6 Or stumble, and so throughout the ch ↩
  6. 6. Matthew 18:6 Lit millstone turned by a donkey ↩
  7. 7. Matthew 18:7 I.e., enticements to sin ↩
  8. 8. Matthew 18:7 Luke 17:1; 1 Cor 11:19; 1 Tim 4:1 ↩
  9. 9. Matthew 18:7 I.e., enticements to sin ↩
  10. 10. Matthew 18:7 I.e., enticements to sin ↩

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