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George Lamsa Translation

Matthew 18:14

Even so, your Father in heaven does not want one of these little ones to be lost.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   God Continued...;   Heaven;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Penitent;   Salvation;   Wicked (People);   Scofield Reference Index - Parables;   Thompson Chain Reference - Children;   Lambs of the Fold;   The Topic Concordance - Losing and Things Lost;   Salvation;   Seeking;   Will of God;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hutchinsonians;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Forgiveness;   Matthew, the Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Text of the New Testament;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Brotherhood (2);   Character;   Character of Christ;   Childhood;   Circumstantiality in the Parables;   Complacency;   Discourse;   Heaven ;   Little Ones;   Love (2);   Matthew, Gospel According to;   Meals;   Necessity;   Omnipresence;   Punishment (2);   Reconciliation;   Redemption (2);   Salvation;   Social Life;   Trinity (2);  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);   Will;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for October 13;   Every Day Light - Devotion for November 14;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
In the same way, it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones perish.
King James Version (1611)
Euen so, it is not the will of your father which is in heauen, that one of these little ones should perish.
King James Version
Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
English Standard Version
So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
New American Standard Bible
"So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven for one of these little ones to perish.
New Century Version
In the same way, your Father in heaven does not want any of these little children to be lost.
Amplified Bible
"So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones be lost.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So is it not ye wil of your Father which is in heauen, that one of these litle ones should perish.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish.
Legacy Standard Bible
In this way, it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish.
Berean Standard Bible
In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.
Contemporary English Version
That's how it is with your Father in heaven. He doesn't want any of these little ones to be lost.
Complete Jewish Bible
Thus your Father in heaven does not want even one of these little ones to be lost.
Darby Translation
So it is not the will of your Father who is in [the] heavens that one of these little ones should perish.
Easy-to-Read Version
in the same way your Father in heaven does not want any of these little children to be lost.
Good News Translation
In just the same way your Father in heaven does not want any of these little ones to be lost.
Lexham English Bible
In the same way it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish.
Literal Translation
So it is not the will before your Father in Heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
American Standard Version
Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Bible in Basic English
Even so it is not the pleasure of your Father in heaven for one of these little ones to come to destruction.
Hebrew Names Version
Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
International Standard Version
In the same way, it is not the will of yourour
; still other mss. read my">[fn] Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost."
Etheridge Translation
14 So it is not good [fn] before your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Murdock Translation
Just so, it is not the pleasure of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Euen so, it is not the wyll of your father in heauen, that one of these litle ones shoulde peryshe.
English Revised Version
Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
World English Bible
Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Weymouth's New Testament
Just so it is not the will of your Father in Heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
So it is not the wille bifor youre fadir that is in heuenes, that oon of these litle perische.
Update Bible Version
Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Webster's Bible Translation
Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
New English Translation
In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that one of these little ones be lost.
New King James Version
Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
New Living Translation
In the same way, it is not my heavenly Father's will that even one of these little ones should perish.
New Life Bible
I tell you, My Father in heaven does not want one of these little children to be lost.
New Revised Standard
So it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus, there is no desire, in the presence of my Father who is in the heavens, that, one of these little ones, should be lost.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Even so it is not the will of your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Revised Standard Version
So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Even so it is not the wyll of youre father in heven that one of these lytelons shulde perishe.
Young's Literal Translation
so it is not will in presence of your Father who is in the heavens, that one of these little ones may perish.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Euen so is it not the will before youre father in heauen, that one of these litle ones shulde perishe.
Mace New Testament (1729)
in like manner your heavenly father would not that any person of such humility should be lost.
Simplified Cowboy Version
what is important. He don't want a single one lost.

Contextual Overview

7 Woe to the world because of offences! Offences are bound to come; but woe to the man by whose hand the offences come! 8 If your hand or your foot offends you, cut it off and throw it away from you; for it is much better for you to go through life lamed or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet, and fall into the everlasting fire. 9 And if your eye offends you, remove it and throw it away from you; it is better for you to go through life with one eye, rather than having two eyes and fall into the gehenna of fire. 10 See to it that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I say to you, their angels always see the face of my Father in heaven. 11 For the Son of man has come to save what was lost. 12 What do you think? If a man should have a hundred sheep, and one of them is lost, would he not leave the ninety and nine on the mountain, and go in search of the one which is lost? 13 And if he should find it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety and nine which were not lost. 14 Even so, your Father in heaven does not want one of these little ones to be lost.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

it is: Luke 12:32, John 6:39, John 6:40, John 10:27-30, John 17:12, Romans 8:28-39, Ephesians 1:5-7, 1 Peter 1:3-5

your: Matthew 5:16, Matthew 6:9, Matthew 6:32

one: Isaiah 40:11, Zechariah 13:7, John 21:15, 1 Corinthians 8:11-13, 2 Timothy 2:10, Hebrews 12:13, 2 Peter 3:9

Reciprocal: Matthew 10:42 - one Matthew 18:6 - little Matthew 18:10 - heed Luke 9:48 - Whosoever shall receive this Luke 12:30 - your Luke 15:10 - one Luke 17:2 - one

Cross-References

Genesis 17:21
But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time next year.
Genesis 18:1
AND the LORD revealed himself to him by the oak of Mamre, as he was sitting at the door of the tent in the heat of the day;
Genesis 18:2
And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, three men stood at a distance from him; and when he saw them, he ran from the door of the tent to meet them and bowed himself to the ground,
Genesis 18:10
And the LORD said, I will certainly return to you at this time next year, and 1o, Sarah your wife shall be with child, and shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door which was behind her.
Numbers 11:23
And the LORD said to Moses, The LORDS hand is full; now you shall see whether my word shall come true to you or not.
Deuteronomy 7:21
You shall not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God is among you, a great and terrible God.
Deuteronomy 30:3
Then the LORD your God will bring back again your captivity, and have compassion upon you, and will return and gather you from all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you.
1 Samuel 14:6
And Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the LORD will help us; for nothing will prevent the LORD from saving by many or by few.
2 Kings 4:16
And he said to her, About this season, you will be with child, and shall embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, O prophet of God, do not lie to your handmaid.
Job 36:5
Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise him who is pure as milk.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Even so it is not the will of your father which is in heaven,.... This is the accommodation, or application of the parable of the lost sheep to the present purpose, and is the top of the climax or gradation here made use of. First, Christ observes, in order to deter any from despising and offending any of his disciples, even the meanest, that they have angels to be their guardians, who are continually in the presence of God; and next, that he himself in human nature came to be the author of salvation to these persons; and then rises up to the sovereign will of his Father, and their's, the source and security of their everlasting happiness; which will is, not

that one of these little ones, that believe in Christ,

should perish. It is his will of command that no stumbling block should be laid in their way to cause them to stumble and fall, to the grieving of their souls, the wounding of their consciences, and the perishing, or loss of their peace and comfort; and it is his unalterable will of purpose, or his unchangeable decree, that not one of them, even the meanest, shall perish eternally: in pursuance of which will, he has chosen them in his Son, he has put them into his hands, and secured them in his covenant; and having redeemed them by Christ, and called them by grace, he keeps them by his power, through faith unto salvation. Nor shall anyone of them finally and totally fall away and perish, through the power of their own corruptions, the temptations of Satan, the reproaches and persecutions of men, the frowns or flatteries of the world, or through the errors and heresies of false teachers, or any other way. It is to be observed, that when our Lord, in Matthew 18:10, is speaking of the happiness of the angels, and the honour done to the little ones by having such guardians; then the more to aggrandize this matter, he represents those as in the presence of his "Father which is in heaven"; but here, when he would express the wonderful love and grace of God, in the resolutions of his heart, and purposes of his will, to save them, then it is "your Father which is in heaven"; and this, the rather to engage them to the belief of it, since they stood in such a near relation to him, as children to a father: and therefore must be infinitely more concerned for their welfare, than a proprietor of sheep can be, for one that is lost. The Arabic and Ethiopic versions indeed read, "my father", but without any authority; for the phraseology, "the will before your Father", as in the original text, See Gill "Mt 11:26"

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To show still further the reason why we should not despise Christians, he introduced a parable showing the joy felt when a thing lost is found. A shepherd rejoices over the recovery of one of his flock that had wandered more than over all that remained; so God rejoices that man is restored: so he seeks his salvation, and wills that not one thus found should perish. If God thus loves and preserves the redeemed, then surely man should not despise them. See this passage further explained in Luke 15:4-10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 18:14. It is not the will of your Father — If any soul be finally lost, it is not because God's will or counsel was against its salvation, or that a proper provision had not been made for it; but that, though light came into the world, it preferred darkness to light, because of its attachment to its evil deeds.


 
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