13 Bible Verses about Spiritual Immaturity

And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, as to the childlike in Christ.

About whom, much subject matter from us is also difficult to explain, since ye have become sluggish in hearing. For also men who ought to be teachers because of the time, ye have need again for some man to teach you the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become men who have need of milk, and not of solid food. For every man partaking of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is childlike.read more.
But solid food is for mature men, those having their sensibilities trained through practice for the discernment of both good and evil.

I gave you milk to drink and not solid food, for ye were not yet able. But not even yet are ye able,

Brothers, become not children in your thoughts. Instead be childlike in wickedness, but in your thoughts become mature.

But I say the heir, for as long a time as he is a child, differs nothing from a bondman though he is lord of all.

Instead he is under stewards and managers until the time appointed from the father.

And so when we were children, we were in bondage under the rudiments of the world.

So that we may no longer be childish, tossed about and carried about by every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men in craftiness with the methodology of error.

For also men who ought to be teachers because of the time, ye have need again for some man to teach you the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become men who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

as newborn babes, long for the genuine intellectual milk, so that ye may grow by it,

Forsake ye simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of understanding.

for ye are still carnal. For whereas among you is envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk according to man?

I know thy works. Behold, I have given before thee an opened door that none is able to shut it, because thou have little power, and thou keep my word, and did not deny my name.