8 Bible Verses about Childhood
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{Although we could have insisted on our own importance} as apostles of Christ, yet we became infants in your midst, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside the things of a child.
Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy; [the] rod of discipline will drive it from him.
so that we may no longer be infants, tossed about by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of people, by craftiness with reference to the scheming of deceit.
Therefore whoever humbles himself like this child, this person is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven,
Train the child {concerning his way}; even when he is old, he will not stray from it.
Can a woman forget her suckling, [refrain] from having compassion on the child of her womb? Indeed, these may forget, but I, I will not forget you!
Now I say, for as long a time [as] the heir is a child, [he is] no different from a slave, [although he] is master of everything,
From Thematic Bible
Childhood » Marks of » Petty complaints
saying, 'We played the flute for you and you did not dance; we sang a lament and you did not mourn.'
Childhood » Love of amusement
And the public squares of the city will be filled [with] boys and girls playing in its public squares.'
Childhood » Marks of » Foolishness
Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy; [the] rod of discipline will drive it from him.
Childhood » Marks of » Fickleness
so that we may no longer be infants, tossed about by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of people, by craftiness with reference to the scheming of deceit.
Childhood » Marks of » Credulity
The simple will believe every word, but the clever will consider his step.
Childhood » Marks of » Need of rulers
but he is under guardians and managers until the time set by [his] father.
Childhood » Marks of » Dependence
Did I conceive all these people? If I have fathered them, that you could say to me, 'Carry them in your lap, just as a foster-father carries the suckling on the land that you swore an oath to their ancestors?'
Childhood » Marks of » Weak digestion
For everyone who partakes of milk [is] unacquainted with the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.
Childhood » Marks of » Ignorance
For indeed, [although you] ought to be teachers {by this time}, you have need of someone to teach you again the beginning elements of the oracles of God, and {you have need of} milk, not solid food.
Symbols and similitudes » Childhood
and said, "Truly I say to you, unless you turn around and become like young children, you will never enter into the kingdom of heaven!
But [when] Jesus saw [it], he was indignant, and said to them, "Let the young children come to me. Do not forbid them, {for to such belongs} the kingdom of God. Truly I say to you, whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a young child will never enter into it."
But Jesus called them to himself, saying, "Allow the children to come to me, and do not forbid them, {for to such belongs} the kingdom of God. Truly I say to you, whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a young child will never enter into it."
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