8 Bible Verses about Babies Used As A Spiritual Image

And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ. I have fed you milk, not solid food; for you were not yet able; but you are not able even now;

as new born babes desire earnestly the pure milk of the word, that you may grow by it to salvation,

and said to him, Do you hear what these say? And Jesus said to them, Yes. Have you never read, that out of the mouths of babes and nursing infants, you have perfected praise?

At that time Jesus answering said, I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and hast revealed them to babes.

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

Brothers, be not children in understanding, but in malice be children, and in understanding be perfect men.

that we may be no longer children, driven about like waves and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the art of men, and the craftiness of deceitful wiles,

For every one that partakes of milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe; but solid food is for the perfect, having their perceptive faculties exercised by practice to distinguish both good and evil.