9 Bible Verses about Babies, Figurative Use
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an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth
Like newborn babes, long for the pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as carnal men, as infants in Christ.
for every one who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.
But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as carnal men, as infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food; for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, even now you are not ready,
and they said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes. Have you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants you have perfected praise'?"
At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to babes.
Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; be infants in evil, but in thinking be mature.
As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming.
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