9 Bible Verses about Babies Used As A Spiritual Image

But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation--

Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.

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 infants and nursing babies you have prepared 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 understanding and revealed them to little children;

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

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.