20 Bible Verses about Like Children

Truly I say to you, whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a young child will never enter into it."

Truly I say to you, whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a young child will never enter into it."

and said, "Truly I say to you, unless you turn around and become like young children, you will never enter into the kingdom of heaven!

Therefore whoever humbles himself like this child, this person is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven,

But Jesus said, "Allow the children, and do not forbid them to come to me, {for to such belongs} the kingdom of heaven."

But [when] Jesus saw [it], he was indignant, and said to them, "Let the young children come to me. Do not forbid them, {for to such belongs} the kingdom of God.

But Jesus called them to himself, saying, "Allow the children to come to me, and do not forbid them, {for to such belongs} the kingdom of God.

like newborn infants long for the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

But you [are] not [to be] like this! But the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves.

And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual [people], but as to fleshly [people], as to infants in Christ.

For everyone who partakes of milk [is] unacquainted with the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.

Brothers, do not become children in [your] understanding, but with respect to wickedness be as a child, and in [your] understanding be mature.

So then, O Yahweh, you are my God. You have made your servant king in place of David my father [though] I [am] a young boy. I do not know going out or coming in.

Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Look, I do not know [how] to speak, for I [am] a youth."

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

"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another, who say, 'We played the flute for you and you did not dance; we sang a lament and you did not weep.'

so that we may no longer be infants, tossed about by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of people, by craftiness with reference to the scheming 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 set aside the things of a child.

Now the same [way] [in] exchange (I am speaking as to children), you open wide [your hearts] also.