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.

Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.

Whoever, then, will make himself as low as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children; And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in.

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.