Verse from Matthew

““我实在告诉你们，如果你们不回转，变成像小孩子一样，一定不能进天国。”

马太福音 18:3 

“and said, "Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Matthew 18:3 

Jesus likens greatness to childlikeness. Anyone coming to Him must come in childlike dependency, expectancy, receptivity, and humility (Matthew 18:2–4). While on earth, Jesus lovingly embraced His disciples as “my children” (John 13:33), and the apostle John affectionately addressed us as “dear children” (1 John 2:1, 12, 18, 28). 

Used negatively, however, children or “infants” denote weak or immature believers (1 Corinthians 3:1–3; Ephesians 4:13–14; Hebrews 5:13). “Don’t be childish,” Paul warned us (1 Corinthians 14:20 nlt). Christians are to be childlike, not childish (1 Corinthians 13:11).

Our faith in Jesus is to be like that of a trusting child.