³ and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you ^[a]change and ^(A)become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

¹⁴ But Jesus said, “^[a](A)Leave the children alone, and do not ^[b]forbid them to come to Me; for ^(B)the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

¹⁷ Truly I say to you, ^(A)whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.”

Instruction for the Church

^20 (A)Brothers and sisters, ^(B)do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil ^(C)be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

^2 (A)and like newborn babies, long for the ^[a](B)pure ^[b]milk of the word, so that by it you may ^(C)grow ^[c]in respect to salvation,