MAT 18:3. And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

MAT 18:4. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

MAR 10:15. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.

B. In relation to God we are children:

DEU 8:5. Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

1KI 3:7. And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.

PSA 103:13. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

EPH 5:1. Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

ISA 63:15. Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?

ISA 63:16. Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.

MAL 3:17. And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

GAL 4:3. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

GAL 4:4. But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

GAL 4:5. To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

GAL 4:6. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.