8 Bible Verses about Babies Used As A Spiritual Image

AND I, brethren, have been unable to speak to you as unto spiritual men, but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ. And I have given you milk to drink, and not meat: for hitherto ye have not been capable of it, yea, even to the present moment ye are not capable of it.

as new-born babes desire earnestly the unadulterated milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

and said to him, Hearest thou what these say? Jesus replied to them, Yes; but have ye never read, "That out of the mouths of infants and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?"

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

an instructor of the uninformed, a teacher of babes, holding the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.

Brethren, be not children in your minds: though in naughtiness be ye children, but in your minds be men complete.

that we should be no longer infants, floating on the waves, and carried about with every wind of novel doctrine, by the juggling of men, by their craftiness after the delusive wiles of error;

For every one who useth milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness: for he is an infant. But solid nourishment is proper for grown men, even as many as by habit have their organs of perception exercised for the discernment both of good and evil.