8 Bible Verses about Babies Used As A Spiritual Image

And I, brethren, could not speak to you, as to spiritual, but as to carnal??s to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk, and not solid food; for not yet were ye able to bear it; nay, nor even now are ye able;

as new-born babes, long ye for the spiritual, unadulterated milk, that thereby ye may grow unto salvation,

and said to Him, "Dost Thou hear what these are saying?" And Jesus saith to them, "Yes; did ye never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou didst perfect praise!'"

At that season Jesus, answering, said, "I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, because Thou didst hide these things from the wise and discerning, and didst reveal them to babes.

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;

Brethren, do not be children in mind; yet in evil be babes, but in mind be full-grown.

that we may no longer be babes, billow-tossed, and carried about with every wind of teaching, in the sleight of men, in the craftiness suited to the artifice of error;

for every one who partakes of milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe; but solid food is for full-grown men, who by practice have their senses trained for the discernment both of good and evil.