10 Bible Verses about Babies, Figurative Use

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;

as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.

For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe.

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it : nay, not even now are ye able;

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength, Because of thine adversaries, That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

and said unto him, Hearest thou what these are saying? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea: did ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou has perfected praise?

At that season Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes:

Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.

that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;