13 Bible Verses about Spiritual Immaturity

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ.

Of whom great is the word to us, and difficult of interpretation to speak, since ye have been sluggish in the hearing. For also ye ought to be teachers for the time, again ye have need for some one to teach you the elements of the beginning of the sayings of God; and have become those having need of milk, and not of firm food. For every one partaking of milk is inexperienced in the word of justice: for he is a child.read more.
And firm food is of the perfected, of them by habit having the senses exercised for the separation of good and evil.

I have given you milk to drink, and not food; for ye were not able, but neither now are ye yet able.

Brethren, be not children in reflection: but in wickedness act like children, and in reflection be ye perfected.

And I say, for as long time as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a servant, being lord of all;

But is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father.

So also we, when we were children, were subjugated under the world's elements:

That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit;

For also ye ought to be teachers for the time, again ye have need for some one to teach you the elements of the beginning of the sayings of God; and have become those having need of milk, and not of firm food.

As new born babes, long for the sincere milk pertaining to the word, that ye might be nourished with it:

Forsake ye the foolish, and live; and go straight in the way of understanding.

For yet are ye carnal: for wherefore envy in you, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?

I know thy works: behold, I have given before thee an open door, and none can shut it, for thou hast a little power, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.