12 Bible Verses about Spiritual Immaturity
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And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.
Concerning whom we have many things to say, and hard to be explained, seeing ye are become dull of hearing. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again, which are the first principles of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unexperienced in the word of righteousness; for he is a babe.read more.
But strong meat belongeth to them of full age, to them who have their senses exercised by habit to discern both good and evil.
I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it: nor are ye now able.
Brethren, be not children in understanding: in wickedness be ye as infants, but in understanding be ye grown men.
Now I say the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
But is under tutors and stewards, till the time appointed by the father.
So we also, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.
That we may be no longer children, fluctuating to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the slight of men, by cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive:
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again, which are the first principles of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat.
and all evil-speakings, As new born babes desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
For ye are still carnal: for while there is among you emulation, 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, none can shut it) that thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
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spiritual Immaturity » Inability to receive strong doctrine
Brethren, be not children in understanding: in wickedness be ye as infants, but in understanding be ye grown men.
And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it: nor are ye now able.
spiritual Immaturity » Necessity for tutelage
So we also, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.
Now I say the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and stewards, till the time appointed by the father.
spiritual Immaturity » Continuance in the primary department
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again, which are the first principles of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat.
and all evil-speakings, As new born babes desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
spiritual Immaturity » Instability of faith
That we may be no longer children, fluctuating to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the slight of men, by cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive:
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