13 Bible Verses about Spiritual Immaturity

But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.read more.
But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,

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

I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything,

but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.

In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.

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 though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,

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

Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight."

for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?

"'I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.