Acts 20:28
Take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit appointed you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
1 Corinthians 3:1-2
And I, brethren, could not speak to you, as to spiritual, but as to carnal??s to babes in Christ.
Ephesians 4:11-12
And He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
John 10:1-5
"Verily, verily, I say to you, he that enters not through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.
John 21:15-17
So, when they breakfasted, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He says to Him, "Yea, Lord, Thou knowest that I fondly love Thee." He saith to him, "Feed My lambs."
Luke 12:42
And the Lord said, "Who, then, is the faithful steward, the wise one, whom his lord will appoint over his household to give the portion of food in due season?
1 Corinthians 2:6
But we speak wisdom among the perfect; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought;
1 Corinthians 2:12-13
And we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is of God; that we may know the things freely given us by God.
Hebrews 5:12-14
For even when, on account of the time, ye ought to be teachers, ye again have need that some one teach you the first elements of the oracles of God, and have become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food;
1 Peter 2:2
as new-born babes, long ye for the spiritual, unadulterated milk, that thereby ye may grow unto salvation,
1 Peter 5:1-4
The elders, therefore, I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of Christ's sufferings, also a partaker of the glory about to be revealed;