12 Bible Verses about Spiritual Malnutrition

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. I fed you with milk, not with solid food. You were not able for solid food, and you are not able even now; you are still worldly. For with jealousy and quarrels in your midst, are you not worldly, are you not behaving like ordinary men?

'Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food'? Yes, and God will do away with the one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body;

and told them, "It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it a den of robbers."

(For anyone who is fed on milk is unskilled in moral truth; he is a mere babe.

Destruction is their fate, the belly is their god, they glory in their shame, these men of earthly mind!

The Law is spiritual; we know that. But then I am a creature of the flesh, in the thraldom of sin.

He answered, "It is written, Man is not to live on bread alone, but on every word that issues from the mouth of God."

What gives life is the Spirit: flesh is of no avail at all. The words I have uttered to you are spirit and life.

Such creatures are no servants of Christ our Lord, they are slaves of their own base desires; with their plausible and pious talk they beguile the hearts of unsuspecting people. But surely not of you!

in their lust they will exploit you with cunning arguments ??men whose doom comes apace from of old, and destruction is awake upon their trail.

For those who follow the flesh have their interests in the flesh, and those who follow the Spirit have their interests in the Spirit. The interests of the flesh mean death, the interests of the Spirit mean life and peace. For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot).

Still, false prophets did appear among the People, as among you also there will be false teachers, men who will insinuate destructive heresies, even disowning the Lord who ransomed them; they bring rapid destruction on themselves,