12 Bible Verses about Spiritual Malnutrition

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you, as to spiritual men, but as to those who are carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you were not then able to bear it; indeed, not even now are you able; for you are yet carnal. For, since envy and strife and divisions are among you, are you not carnal, and do you not walk as men?

Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body:

and said to them: It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of robbers.

For every one that partakes of milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

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

For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold into bondage to sin.

But he answered and said: It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.

It is the spirit that makes alive; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I speak to you are spirit and life.

For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own appetites; and, by good words and fair speeches, they deceive the hearts of the simple.

and, with delusive words, they will, through covetousness, make gain of you: the condemnation, long ago denounced against these, delays not, and their destruction does not slumber.

For those who are according to the flesh, mind the things of the flesh; but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace. Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be.

But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers also among you; and these will stealthily introduce ruinous sects, and deny the Lord that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction: