9 Bible Verses about Childlikeness

I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it."

And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

Whoever then humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

Indeed I am composed and quiet, like a young child carried by its mother; I am content like the young child I carry.

Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in my father David's place, even though I am only a young man and am inexperienced.

But Jesus called for the children, saying, "Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.