8 Bible Verses about Babies Used As A Spiritual Image

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you, as to spiritual men, but as to those who are carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you were not then able to bear it; indeed, not even now are you able;

as new-born babes, earnestly desire the pure spiritual milk, that you may grow by it,

and they said to him: Do you not hear what these say? And Jesus said to them: Yes; have you never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

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

an instructor of the simple, a teacher of the unlearned, because you have the form of true knowledge in the law;

Brethren, be not children in understanding: yet, in malice, be childlike; but, in understanding, be full-grown men.

that we might no longer be children, tossed and carried about by every wind of teaching, through the artifice of men, through craftiness used by them for the deliberate planning of deceit;

For every one that partakes of milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong food belongs to those who are of mature age, who, by use, have their internal senses exercised to the discerning of both good and evil.