20 Bible Verses about Like Children

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

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

and said, "I tell you the truth, unless you turn around and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!

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

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

But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, "Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

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.

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

Not so with you; instead the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the one who serves.

So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.

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

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.

I answered, "Oh, Lord God, I really do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young."

When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son, and I summoned my son out of Egypt.

"To what should I compare this generation? They are 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, 'We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.'

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways.

Now as a fair exchange -- I speak as to my children -- open wide your hearts to us also.