8 Bible Verses about Childhood

and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’

And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.’

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;
The rod of discipline will remove it far from him.

As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;

The naive believes everything,
But the sensible man considers his steps.

but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by the father.

Was it I who conceived all this people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which You swore to their fathers’?

For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and said to them, "Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. "Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all."

But Jesus called for them, saying, "Permit the children to come to Me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. "Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all."