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8 Bible Verses About Children’s Innocence

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  • Deuteronomy 1:39 describes the children of the wilderness generation as not yet knowing good from bad, and they are the ones who enter the land.
  • Isaiah 7:15-16 measures the time until judgement falls on two kings by a boy’s age of knowing to reject the wrong and choose the right.
  • Paul puts childish reasoning behind him in 1 Corinthians 13:11, and in 1 Corinthians 14:20 asks believers to stay infants in regard to evil.
  • The millstone warning of Matthew 18:6 is also in Mark 9:42 and Luke 17:2.
  • Psalm 106:38 calls the blood of children sacrificed to idols innocent blood.

The Bible describes young children as not yet knowing good from bad. Moses says it of the children who would enter the promised land (Deuteronomy 1:39), and Isaiah measures time by it (Isaiah 7:15-16). The other passages on the subject are Jesus’s sayings about little children in Mark 10 and Matthew 18, Paul’s letters to Corinth and Rome, and Psalm 106. Not yet knowing good from bad Deuteronomy 1:39 “And the little ones that you said would be taken captive,…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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