20 Bible Verses about Like Children

I assure you: Whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

I assure you: Whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

“I assure you,” He said, “unless you are converted and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child—this one is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Then Jesus said, “Leave the children alone, and don’t try to keep them from coming to Me, because the kingdom of heaven is made up of people like this.”

When Jesus saw it, He was indignant and said to them, “Let the little children come to Me. Don’t stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Jesus, however, invited them: “Let the little children come to Me, and don’t stop them, because the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Like newborn infants, desire the pure spiritual milk, so that you may grow by it for your salvation,

But it must not be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and whoever leads, like the one serving.

Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ.

Now everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced with the message about righteousness, because he is an infant.

Brothers, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.

“Lord my God, You have now made Your servant king in my father David’s place. Yet I am just a youth with no experience in leadership.

But I protested, “Oh no, Lord, God! Look, I don’t know how to speak since I am only a youth.”

When Israel was a child, I loved him,
and out of Egypt I called My son.

“To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to each other:

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to each other:

We played the flute for you,
but you didn’t dance;
we sang a lament,
but you didn’t weep!

Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.

When I was a child,
I spoke like a child,
I thought like a child,
I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man,
I put aside childish things.

I speak as to my children. As a proper response, you should also be open to us.