8 Bible Verses about Childhood

saying, 'We played the flute for you and you did not dance; we sang a lament and you did not mourn.'

And the public squares of the city will be filled [with] boys and girls playing in its public squares.'

Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy; [the] rod of discipline will drive it from him.

so that we may no longer be infants, tossed about by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of people, by craftiness with reference to the scheming of deceit.

The simple will believe every word, but the clever will consider his step.

but he is under guardians and managers until the time set by [his] father.

Did I conceive all these people? If I have fathered them, that you could say to me, 'Carry them in your lap, just as a foster-father carries the suckling on the land that you swore an oath to their ancestors?'

For everyone who partakes of milk [is] unacquainted with the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.

For indeed, [although you] ought to be teachers {by this time}, you have need of someone to teach you again the beginning elements of the oracles of God, and {you have need of} milk, not solid food.

and said, "Truly I say to you, unless you turn around and become like young children, you will never enter into the kingdom of heaven!

But [when] Jesus saw [it], he was indignant, and said to them, "Let the young children come to me. Do not forbid them, {for to such belongs} the kingdom of God. Truly I say to you, whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a young child will never enter into it."

But Jesus called them to himself, saying, "Allow the children to come to me, and do not forbid them, {for to such belongs} the kingdom of God. Truly I say to you, whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a young child will never enter into it."