9 Bible Verses about Childlikeness

I tell all of you with certainty, whoever doesn't receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it."

Like newborn babies, thirst for the pure milk of the word so that by it you may grow in your salvation.

Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. Be like infants with respect to evil, but think like adults.

Therefore, whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom from heaven,

So be imitators of God, as his dear children. Live lovingly, just as the Messiah also loved us and gave himself for us as an offering and sacrifice, a fragrant aroma to God.

As obedient children, do not be shaped by the desires that used to influence you when you were ignorant.

Instead, I have composed and quieted myself like a weaned child with its mother; I am like a weaned child.

"You have demonstrated abundant gracious love to your servant David, my father, as he lived in your presence truthfully, righteously, and uprightly in his heart. In addition, you have kept on showing this abundant gracious love by giving him a son to sit on his throne today. Now, LORD my God, you have set me as king to replace my father David, but I'm still young. I don't have any leadership skills.

Jesus, however, called for the children and said, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of God belongs to people like these.