20 Bible Verses about Spiritual Malnutrition

And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, as to the childlike in Christ. I gave you milk to drink and not solid food, for ye were not yet able. But not even yet are ye able, for ye are still carnal. For whereas among you is envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk according to man?

The foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will abolish both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe yourselves with the wool. Ye kill the fatlings, but ye do not feed the sheep.

And he says to them, It is written, My house will be called a house of prayer, but ye made it a den of robbers.

For every man partaking of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is childlike.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and the glory in their shame, who mind earthly things.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, having been sold under sin.

But having answered, he said, It is written, Man will not live on bread alone, but on every word coming out through the mouth of God.

It is the spirit that makes alive. The flesh benefits nothing. The sayings that I speak to you are spirit, are life.

My heart is smitten like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. And whatever he does shall prosper.

For such kind serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. And by their smooth words and elegant speech they deceive the hearts of the naive.

And they will exploit you in greed with fabricated words, whose judgment is not idle for long, and their destruction will not slumber.

As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

For those who are according to flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those according to Spirit the things of the Spirit. For the mentality of the flesh is death, but the mentality of the Spirit is life and peace. Because the mentality of the flesh is enmity against God, for it is not submissive to the law of God, for neither is it able.

But FALSE prophets also developed among the people, as FALSE teachers will also be among you, who will sneak in pernicious denominations, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

from men by thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in [this] life, and whose belly thou fill with thy treasure. They are satisfied with sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

Why boast thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God [is] continual.

Thus says LORD concerning the prophets who make my people to err, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace. And he who does not put into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

The heads of it judge for a bribe, and the priests of it teach for a wage, and the prophets of it divine for money. Yet they lean upon LORD, and say, Is not LORD in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.