8 Bible Verses about Childhood

say, We have piped to you, and ye have not danced: we have mourned to you, and ye have not wailed.

And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

Folly is bound in the heart of a child; the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of that teaching which is in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error;

The simple believeth every word; but the prudent man heedeth his going.

but he is under guardians and stewards until the period fixed by the father.

Have I conceived all this people, have I brought them forth, that thou sayest to me, Carry them in thy bosom, as the nursing-father beareth the suckling, unto the land which thou didst swear unto their fathers?

For every one that partakes of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe;

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

and said, Verily I say to you, Unless ye are converted and become as little children, ye will not at all enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

But Jesus seeing it, was indignant, and said to them, Suffer the little children to come to me; forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say to you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall in no wise enter into it.

But Jesus calling them to him said, Suffer little children to come to me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say to you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.