Matthew Chapter 18 verse 14 Holy Bible
Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
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Even so it is not the pleasure of your Father in heaven for one of these little ones to come to destruction.
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So it is not the will of your Father who is in [the] heavens that one of these little ones should perish.
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Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
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Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
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so it is not will in presence of your Father who is in the heavens, that one of these little ones may perish.
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Matthew 18 : 14 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - Even so. The teaching of the parable is summed up; the conduct of the earthly shepherd is a figure of that of the heavenly Shepherd. The will of your Father... perish. To scandalize one of these little ones, or lead him into sin (which is to cause to perish), is to fight against God's will, who would have all men to be saved (1 Timothy 2:4). "When the dignity of the little ones was asserted, it was Πατρός μου, 'my Father;' now that a motive directly acting on the conscience of the Christian is urged, it is Πατρὸς ὑμῶν, your Father" (Alford). St. Paul teaches that Christ died for the weak brethren (Romans 14:15; 1 Corinthians 8:11). With this text (ver. 14) before him, it is inconceivable that any one can hold the doctrine of the eternal reprobation of certain souls. The whole passage is opposed to the theory of irrespective predestination and irresistible grace.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) Even so it is not the will . . .--The form of the proposition has all the force that belongs to the rhetorical use of the negative. "It is not the will" suggests the thought that the will of the Father is the very opposite of that, and so the words are identical in their teaching with those of St. Paul, "He will have all men to be saved" (1Timothy 2:4). The continued presence of the child is again emphasised in "one of these little ones."
