What Does the Bible Say About Infant Salvation?
Here are 8 Bible verses about infant salvation, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.
- #11 Corinthians 7:14
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
BSBFor the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
- #2Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
BSBSurely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
- #3Deuteronomy 1:39
Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
BSBAnd the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.
- #4Titus 3:5
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
BSBHe saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
- #5Matthew 18:14
Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
BSBIn the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.
- #6Acts 2:39
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
BSBThis promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
- #7Psalms 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
BSBThe wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
- #8Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
BSB“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Verse rankings: OpenBible.info Topical Bible (CC BY). Scripture: KJV & BSB (public domain).