12 Bible Verses about Spiritual Malnutrition

And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ. I have fed you milk, not solid food; for you were not yet able; but you are not able even now; for you are yet carnal. For when there is envy and strife among you are you not carnal and walk as men?

Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will destroy both it and them. And the body is not for fornication but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body;

and said to them, It is written, my house shall be called a house of prayer; but you make it a den of robbers.

For every one that partakes of milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe;

whose end is destruction, whose God is their stomach, and their glory in their shame; who regard earthly things.

For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.

And he answered and said; It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which proceeds from the mouth of God.

The Spirit is that which makes alive; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

for such serve not our anointed Lord, but themselves, And by kind and complimentary words deceive the minds of the simple.

and with covetousness they will make a gain of you with feigned words, whose judgment a long time lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

For they who are according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh, but they who are according to the spirit the things of the spirit; for the minding of the flesh is death, but the minding of the Spirit is life and peace. Because the minding of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God; for it can not be.

But there were also false prophets among the people, as there shall also be false teachers among you, who shall bring in by stealth destructive heresies, even denying the master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction;