11 Bible Verses about Spiritual Immaturity

But I could not discuss things with you, my brothers, as spiritual persons; I had to address you as worldlings, as mere babes in Christ.

On this point I have a great deal to say, which it is hard to make intelligible to you. For you have grown dull of hearing. Though by this time you should be teaching other people, you still need someone to teach you once more the rudimentary principles of the divine revelation. You are in need of milk, not of solid food. (For anyone who is fed on milk is unskilled in moral truth; he is a mere babe.read more.
Whereas solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by exercise to distinguish good and evil.)

I fed you with milk, not with solid food. You were not able for solid food, and you are not able even now;

Brothers, do not be children in the sphere of intelligence; in evil be mere infants, but be mature in your intelligence.

What I mean is this. As long as an heir is under age, there is no difference between him and a servant, though he is lord of all the property;

he is under guardians and trustees till the time fixed by his father.

So with us. When we were under age, we lived under the thraldom of the Elemental spirits of the world;

Though by this time you should be teaching other people, you still need someone to teach you once more the rudimentary principles of the divine revelation. You are in need of milk, not of solid food.

Like newly-born children, thirst for the pure, spiritual milk to make you grow up to salvation.

you are still worldly. For with jealousy and quarrels in your midst, are you not worldly, are you not behaving like ordinary men?

Lo, I have set a door open before you which no one is able to shut; for though your strength is small, you have kept my word, you have not renounced my Name.