8 Bible Verses about Childhood

and saying, We piped to you, and ye did not dance, we mourned to you, and ye did not beat the breast.

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

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

So that we may no longer be childish, tossed about and carried about by every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men in craftiness with the methodology of error.

A simple man believes every word, but the prudent man looks well to his going.

Instead he is under stewards and managers until the time appointed from the father.

Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth, that thou should say to me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father carries the sucking child, to the land which thou swore to their fathers?

For every man partaking of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is childlike.

For also men who ought to be teachers because of the time, ye have need again for some man to teach you the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become men who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

And he said, Truly I say to you, if ye are not turned, and become as children, ye will, no, not enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

But when Jesus saw it, he was displeased, and said to them, Allow the children to come to me. Forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God. Truly I say to you, whoever will not receive the kingdom of God as a child, he will, no, not enter it.

But having summoned them, Jesus said, Allow the children to come to me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of God. Truly I say to you, whoever will not receive the kingdom of God as a child, will, no, not enter into it.