20 Bible Verses about Like Children
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I tell all of you with certainty, whoever doesn't receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it."
I tell all of you with certainty, whoever doesn't receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never get into it at all."
Then he said, "I tell all of you with certainty, unless you change and become like little children, you will never get into the kingdom from heaven.
Therefore, whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom from heaven,
Jesus, however, said, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom from heaven belongs to people like these."
When Jesus saw this, he became furious and told them, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of God belongs to people like these.
Jesus, however, called for the children and said, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of God belongs to people like these.
Like newborn babies, thirst for the pure milk of the word so that by it you may grow in your salvation.
But you are not to do so. On the contrary, the greatest among you should become like the youngest, and the one who leads should become like the one who serves.
Brothers, I couldn't talk to you as spiritual people but as worldly people, as mere infants in the Messiah.
For everyone who lives on milk is still a baby and does not yet know the difference between right and wrong.
Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. Be like infants with respect to evil, but think like adults.
"You have demonstrated abundant gracious love to your servant David, my father, as he lived in your presence truthfully, righteously, and uprightly in his heart. In addition, you have kept on showing this abundant gracious love by giving him a son to sit on his throne today. Now, LORD my God, you have set me as king to replace my father David, but I'm still young. I don't have any leadership skills.
I replied, "Ah, LORD God! Look, I don't know how to speak, because I'm only a young man."
"When Israel was a young child I loved him, and from Egypt I called my son.
"To what can I compare the people living today? They're like little children who sit in the marketplaces and shout to each other,
They're like little children who sit in the marketplace and shout to each other, "A wedding song we played for you, the dance you all did scorn. A woeful dirge we chanted, too, but then you would not mourn.'
Then we will no longer be little children, tossed like waves and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people's trickery, or by clever strategies that would lead us astray.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways.
Do us a favor I ask you as my children and open wide your hearts.
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