12 Bible Verses about Spiritual Immaturity

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you, as to spiritual men, but as to those who are carnal, as to babes in Christ.

Of him we have many things to say, and difficult to be explained, if we do say them, since you are slow in understanding. For though you ought to be teachers, considering the time, yet you have need that some one teach you again what are the first elements of the oracles of God; and you have be come such as have need of milk, and not of strong food. For every one that partakes of milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.read more.
But strong food belongs to those who are of mature age, who, by use, have their internal senses exercised to the discerning of both good and evil.

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you were not then able to bear it; indeed, not even now are you able;

Brethren, be not children in understanding: yet, in malice, be childlike; but, in understanding, be full-grown men.

But I say, that the heir, as long as he is a minor, differs in no respect from a servant, though he is owner of all;

but is under guardians and managers till the time appointed by the father.

So, also, we, when we were minors, were in bondage under the rudiments of the world.

that we might no longer be children, tossed and carried about by every wind of teaching, through the artifice of men, through craftiness used by them for the deliberate planning of deceit;

For though you ought to be teachers, considering the time, yet you have need that some one teach you again what are the first elements of the oracles of God; and you have be come such as have need of milk, and not of strong food.

as new-born babes, earnestly desire the pure spiritual milk, that you may grow by it,

for you are yet carnal. For, since envy and strife and divisions are among you, are you not carnal, and do you not walk as men?

I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door that no one is able to shut, because you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name.