8 Bible Verses about Childhood
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Although we could have been a burden as Christ’s apostles, instead we were gentle among you, as a nursing mother nurtures her own children.
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 put aside childish things.
Foolishness is tangled up in the heart of a youth;
the rod of discipline will drive it away from him.
Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.
Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child—this one is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Teach a youth about the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.
“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
or lack compassion for the child of her womb?
Even if these forget,
yet I will not forget you.
Now I say that as long as the heir is a child, he differs in no way from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.
From Thematic Bible
Childhood » Marks of » Petty complaints
Childhood » Love of amusement
Childhood » Marks of » Foolishness
the rod of discipline will drive it away from him.
Childhood » Marks of » Fickleness
Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching,
Childhood » Marks of » Credulity
but the sensible one watches
Childhood » Marks of » Need of rulers
Instead, he is under guardians and stewards until the time set by his father.
Childhood » Marks of » Dependence
Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth so You should tell me, ‘Carry them at your breast, as a nursing woman carries a baby,’
Childhood » Marks of » Weak digestion
Now everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced with the message about righteousness, because he is an infant.
Childhood » Marks of » Ignorance
Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the basic principles of God’s revelation again. You need milk, not solid food.
Symbols and similitudes » Childhood
When Jesus saw it, He was indignant and said to them, "Let the little children come to Me. Don't stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I assure you: Whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it."
Jesus, however, invited them: "Let the little children come to Me, and don't stop them, because the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I assure you: Whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it."
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