10 Bible Verses about Babies, Figurative Use

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

like newborn infants long for the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual [people], but as to fleshly [people], as to infants in Christ.

For everyone who partakes of milk [is] unacquainted with the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.

And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual [people], but as to fleshly [people], as to infants in Christ. I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, for you were not yet able [to eat it]. But now you are still not able,

From the mouth of children and infants you have founded strength on account of your enemies, to silence [the] enemy and [the] avenger.

And they said to him, "Do you hear what these [children] are saying?" So Jesus said to them, "Yes, have you never read, 'Out of the mouths of children and nursing babies you have prepared for yourself praise'?"

At that time Jesus answered [and] said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these [things] from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to young children.

Brothers, do not become children in [your] understanding, but with respect to wickedness be as a child, and in [your] understanding be mature.

so that we may no longer be infants, tossed about by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of people, by craftiness with reference to the scheming of deceit.