9 Bible Verses about Childlikeness

Truly I say to you, whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a young child will never enter into it."

like newborn infants long for the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

Brothers, do not become children in [your] understanding, but with respect to wickedness be as a child, and in [your] understanding be mature.

Therefore whoever humbles himself like this child, this person is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven,

Therefore become imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former desires [you used to conform to] in your ignorance,

Rather I have soothed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother, like the weaned child [is] my soul with me.

So then, O Yahweh, you are my God. You have made your servant king in place of David my father [though] I [am] a young boy. I do not know going out or coming in.

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.