13 Bible Verses about Spiritual Immaturity

So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing. For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God's utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food. For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.read more.
But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, 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.

So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God's utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.

And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding."

for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?

I know your deeds. (Look! I have put in front of you an open door that no one can shut.) I know that you have little strength, but you have obeyed my word and have not denied my name.