Matthew 18:1-7 ▼

1 At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, 'Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?'

2 And Jesus having called near a child, did set him in the midst of them,

3 and said, 'Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;

4 whoever then may humble himself as this child, he is the greater in the reign of the heavens.

5 'And he who may receive one such child in my name, doth receive me,

6 and whoever may cause to stumble one of those little ones who are believing in me, it is better for him that a weighty millstone may be hanged upon his neck, and he may be sunk in the depth of the sea.

7 'Woe to the world from the stumbling-blocks! for there is a necessity for the stumbling-blocks to come, but woe to that man through whom the stumbling-block doth come!