9 Bible Verses about Childlikeness

Truly I say to you, whoever will not receive the kingdom of God as a child, he will, no, not enter it.

as newborn babes, long for the genuine intellectual milk, so that ye may grow by it,

Brothers, become not children in your thoughts. Instead be childlike in wickedness, but in your thoughts become mature.

He therefore who will make himself lowly as this child, this man is the greater in the kingdom of the heavens.

Become ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as also the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul like a weaned child with his mother. Like a weaned child is my soul within me.

And now, O LORD my God, thou have made thy servant king instead of David my father. And I am but a little child; I know not how to go out or come in.

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.