a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth,

like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ.

For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ. I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able,

From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength
Because of Your adversaries,
To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.

and said to Him, “Do You hear what these children are saying?” And Jesus *said to them, “Yes; have you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies You have prepared praise for Yourself’?”

At that time Jesus said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants.

Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;