8 Bible Verses about Childhood

We made music for you and you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow and you made no signs of grief.

And the open spaces of the town will be full of boys and girls playing in its open spaces.

Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

The simple man has faith in every word, but the man of good sense gives thought to his footsteps.

But is under keepers and managers till the time fixed by the father.

Am I the father of all this people? have I given them birth, that you say to me, Take them in your arms, like a child at the breast, to the land which you gave by an oath to their fathers?

For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child.

And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

And said, Truly, I say to you, If you do not have a change of heart and become like little children, you will not go into the kingdom of heaven.

And when Jesus saw it, he was angry, and said to them, Let the little children come to me, and do not keep them away; for of such is the kingdom of God. Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.

But Jesus sent for them, saying, Let the children come to me, and do not keep them away, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.