8 Bible Verses about Babies Used As A Spiritual Image

And I, brethren, was not able to speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, not with meat; for you were not yet able. But ye are not now yet able:

like newly born babes, desire the pure milk of the word, in order that you may grow thereby unto salvation:

and said to Him, Do you hear what they are saying? And Jesus says to them, Yes: have you not read, That out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

At that time Jesus responding said, I praise thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, because thou hast hidden these things from the wise and the prudent, and reveal them unto babes.

a teacher of the juveniles, having a form of knowledge and truth in the law;

Brethren, be not children in intellect: but be infants in evil, but be perfect in intellect.

in order that we may be no longer infants, tossed by the waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, in the caprice of the people, in their craftiness, pursuant to their method of delusion;

For every one partaking of milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness; for he is a babe; but solid food belongs to the perfect, those having their senses disciplined by use unto the discernment both of the good and the evil.