8 Bible Verses about Babies Used As A Spiritual Image

And I, my brethren, could not speak to you, as to spiritual persons, but as to carnal ones, even as to babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat; for ye were not hitherto able to bear it, nor yet are ye even now able.

and envies, and all evil-speakings, as new-born babes desire that rational milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby:

And Jesus saith unto them, Yes, have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast procured praise?

And upon this occasion Jesus opened his mouth and said, "I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and knowing, and hast revealed them to babes:

a light to them that are in the darkness, an instructor of the simple, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth which is in the law.

My brethren, be not children in sense: but in malice be infants, and in your judgements shew yourselves to be men.

That we may be no longer children fluctuating and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the artful insinuations of men, and their crafty methods of deceiving;

For every one that wanteth milk, is unacquainted with the doctrine of justification; for he is an infant: but firm food is for persons come to age, who by habit have their senses exercised to a discernment both of good and evil.