8 Bible Verses about Childhood

and saying, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance, we lamented to you, and ye did not smite the breast.

And broad places of the city are full of boys and girls, Playing in its broad places.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,

The simple giveth credence to everything, And the prudent attendeth to his step.

but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father,

I -- have I conceived all this people? I -- have I begotten it, that Thou sayest unto me, Carry it in thy bosom as the nursing father beareth the suckling, unto the ground which Thou hast sworn to its fathers?

for every one who is partaking of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness -- for he is an infant,

for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,

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;

and Jesus having seen, was much displeased, and he said to them, 'Suffer the children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God; verily I say to you, whoever may not receive the reign of God, as a child -- he may not enter into it;'

and Jesus having called them near, said, 'Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God; verily I say to you, Whoever may not receive the reign of God as a little child, may not enter into it.'