17 Bible Verses about Like Children

I solemnly say to you, whoever does not accept the kingdom of God as a little child does, will never get into it at all."

I solemnly say to you, Whoever does not accept the kingdom of God as a little child does, will never get into it at all."

and said: "I solemnly say to you, unless you turn and become like little children, you can never get into the kingdom of heaven at all.

So then, whoever becomes as lowly as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven,

But Jesus said, "Let the little children alone, and stop preventing them from coming to me, for to such as these the kingdom of heaven belongs."

When Jesus saw it, He was indignant, and said to them, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them from it, for to such as these the kingdom of God belongs.

But Jesus called them to Him and said, "Let the little children come to me, and stop preventing them from it, for to such as these the kingdom of God belongs.

and like new-born babies thirst for pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to final salvation,

But you are not to do so. On the contrary, the greatest among you must be like the youngest and the leader as the servant.

So I myself, brothers, could not deal with you as spiritual persons, but as creatures of human clay, as merely baby Christians.

For everyone who uses milk alone is inexperienced in the message of right-doing; he is only an infant.

Brothers, stop being children in intelligence, but as to evil keep on being babies; and yet as to intelligence be men of maturity.

"But to what can I compare the leaders of this age? They are like little children sitting in the market places and calling to their fellows in the game,

They are like little children sitting in the market-place and calling to their fellows in the game: "'We played the wedding march for you, but you did not dance. We sang the funeral dirge, but you did not mourn.'

so that we may not be babies any longer, or like sailors tossed about and driven around by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men through their cunning in inventing new methods of error.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I laid aside my childish ways.

To pay me back, I tell you, my children, you too must stretch your hearts with love for me.