5 Bible Verses about Childhood

"saying. 'We have piped to you and you have not danced; We have wailed, but you have not beaten your breasts.'

So we shall no longer be children, tossed up and down, and blown about by every wind of teaching, tricked by the craft of men in the snares of misleading error;

but is under the control of guardians and trustees, until the time appointed by his father.

For every one who feeds on milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness. He is still an infant.

And this too, although you ought by this time to be teaching others, you are still needing some one to teach you the very rudiments of divine revelation. You need milk, not solid food.

"In solemn truth I tell you that unless you turn and become like little children, you will not even enter the kingdom of heaven.

Jesus was indignant when he saw it, and said: "Let the little children come to me. Do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such. I tell you true that unless a man receives the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not even enter it."

But Jesus called for the babies. "Let the little children come to me," he said, "do not hinder them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven. "I tell you in solemn truth that whoever will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child, he will never get into it."