20 Bible Verses about Like Children

Truly I tell you, he who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child shall not enter it.

Truly I tell you he who does not receive the kingdom of God like little child, shall in no wise enter it.

He said: Truly I tell you, if you do not have a change of heart and become like little children, you will not go into the kingdom of heaven.

He who humbles himself to become like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Jesus said: Let the little ones (children) come to me. Do not keep them away: for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.

But when Jesus saw it he was moved with indignation. He said: Allow the little children to come to me! Do not turn them away for they belong to the kingdom of God.

Jesus said: Invite the little children to come to me, and do not forbid them for the kingdom of God belongs to them.

Like newborn infants, long for the spiritual milk that is without deception to help you grow to salvation.

But you should not be this way. He who is the greater among you let him become as the younger. He that is chief among you is he who serves.

Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as fleshly men, as babes (infants) in Christ.

Everyone who drinks milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

Brothers, do not be like children in understanding. When it comes to evil be innocent children but in your thinking be mature adults.

O Jehovah God, you allowed me to succeed my father as king, even though I am very young and do not know how to rule.

I, Jeremiah, said: Lord Jehovah, I do not know how to speak. I am only a child!

When Israel was a young man, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

Of what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their playmates.

They are like children that sit in the marketplace and call to each other. We played the flute for you but you did not dance. We wailed and you did not weep.

We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error.

When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, and reason like a child. When I became an adult I did away with childish things.

Now in return for the same in like kind (I speak as to my children), you also be open (open your hearts wide)!