9 Bible Verses about Childlikeness

Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,

Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as 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.

Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am but a little child. I don't know how to go out or come in.

Jesus summoned them, saying, "Allow the little children to come to me, and don't hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.