1 Corinthians 14:20
Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
Romans 16:19
Your obedience is known to all and thus I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.
Psalm 119:99
I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your rules.
Matthew 18:3
and said, "I tell you the truth, unless you turn around and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!
Hebrews 5:12-13
For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God's utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.
1 Peter 2:2
And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,
1 Corinthians 2:6
Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.
Psalm 131:1-2
A song of ascents, by David. O Lord, my heart is not proud, nor do I have a haughty look. I do not have great aspirations, or concern myself with things that are beyond me.
Isaiah 11:3
He will take delight in obeying the Lord. He will not judge by mere appearances, or make decisions on the basis of hearsay.
Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to little children.
Matthew 19:4
He answered, "Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,
Mark 10:15
I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it."
1 Corinthians 3:1-2
So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways.
Ephesians 4:14-15
So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.
Philippians 1:9
And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight
Philippians 3:15
Therefore let those of us who are "perfect" embrace this point of view. If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways.
Hebrews 6:1-3
Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,
2 Peter 3:18
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the honor both now and on that eternal day.