Infant Salvation

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call unto him.

The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee; I have appointed thee a prophet unto the nations.

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:—

For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

But Jesus said, Suffer the little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for to such belongeth the kingdom of heaven.

But thou art he that took me out of the womb; Thou didst make me trust when I was upon my mother’s breasts. — read the full passage →

who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.

And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house. — read the full passage →

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

And whosoever shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it were better for him if a great millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

and should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.

having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; — read the full passage →

Jesus said therefore unto the twelve, Would ye also go away? — read the full passage →

which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one shall the many be made righteous.

But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, hath found according to the flesh? — read the full passage →

Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from of old thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou didst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

And Jehovah smelled the sweet savor; and Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake, for that the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.

And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. — read the full passage →

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.