10 Bible Verses about Babies, Figurative Use

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby to salvation,

And I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ.

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

And I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you weren't yet ready. And even now you are still not ready,

From the lips of babes and infants you have ordained praise, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?'"

At that time, Jesus answered, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to little children.

Brothers, do not be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

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