8 Bible Verses about Babies Used As A Spiritual Image

But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as carnal men, as infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food; for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, even now you are not ready,

Like newborn babes, long for the pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

and they said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes. Have you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants you have perfected praise'?"

At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to babes.

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth

Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; be infants in evil, but in 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 cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming.

for every one who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their sense trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.