10 Bible Verses about Babies, Figurative Use

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law:

as newborn babes desire earnestly the pure mental milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation,

And I, brethren, have not been able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly; as to babes in Christ.

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

And I, brethren, have not been able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly; as to babes in Christ. I have given you milk to drink, not meat, for ye have not yet been able, nor indeed are ye yet able;

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established praise because of thine adversaries, to still the enemy and the avenger.

and said to him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus says to them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

At that time, Jesus answering said, I praise thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes.

Brethren, be not children in your minds, but in malice be babes; but in your minds be grown men.

in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of that teaching which is in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error;