13 Bible Verses about Spiritual Immaturity

Brothers, I couldn't talk to you as spiritual people but as worldly people, as mere infants in the Messiah.

We have much to say about this, but it is difficult to explain because you have become too lazy to understand. In fact, though by now you should be teachers, you still need someone to teach you the basic truths of God's word. You have become people who need milk instead of solid food. For everyone who lives on milk is still a baby and does not yet know the difference between right and wrong. read more.
But solid food is for mature people, whose minds are trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you weren't ready for it. And you're still not ready!

Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. Be like infants with respect to evil, but think like adults.

Now what I am saying is this: As long as an heir is a child, he is no better off than a slave, even though he owns everything.

Instead, he is placed under the care of guardians and servant managers until the time set by the father.

It was the same way with us. While we were children, we were slaves to the basic principles of the world.

Then we will no longer be little children, tossed like waves and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people's trickery, or by clever strategies that would lead us astray.

In fact, though by now you should be teachers, you still need someone to teach you the basic truths of God's word. You have become people who need milk instead of solid food.

Like newborn babies, thirst for the pure milk of the word so that by it you may grow in your salvation.

Leave your naive ways, and live. Walk in the path of understanding."

That's because you are still worldly. As long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, you are worldly and living by human standards, aren't you?

"I know what you've been doing. Look! I have put in front of you an open door that no one can shut. You have only a little strength, but you have obeyed my word and have not denied my name.