12 Bible Verses about Spiritual Immaturity

So, for my part, brothers, I could not treat you as spiritual persons; I had to treat you just as creatures of flesh and blood, as babies in Christian living.

I have much to say to you about this, but it is difficult to make it clear to you, because you have become so slow of apprehension. For although from the length of your Christian experience you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very elements of Christian truth, and you have come to need milk instead of solid food. For anyone who is limited to milk is unacquainted with Christian teaching, for he is only an infant.read more.
But full-grown men have a right to solid food, for their faculties are trained by practice to distinguish right and wrong.

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

Brothers, you must not be children mentally. In evil be babies, but mentally be mature.

I mean this: As long as the heir is a minor, he is no better than a slave, although he is the owner of all the property,

but he is under guardians and trustees until the time fixed by his father.

So when we were minors, we were slaves to material ways of looking at things,

We must not be babies any longer, blown about and swung around by every wind of doctrine through the trickery of men with their ingenuity in inventing error.

For although from the length of your Christian experience you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very elements of Christian truth, and you have come to need milk instead of solid food.

and like new-born babes crave the pure spiritual milk that will make you grow up to salvation,

for you are still worldly. For when there are still jealousy and quarrels among you, are you not worldly and living on a merely human level?

I know what you are doing. See! I have put before you an open door that no one can close. I know that you have little strength, but you have obeyed my message and you have not disowned my name.