12 Bible Verses about Spiritual Malnutrition
Most Relevant Verses
AND I, brethren, have been unable to speak to you as unto spiritual men, but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ. And I have given you milk to drink, and not meat: for hitherto ye have not been capable of it, yea, even to the present moment ye are not capable of it. For ye are still carnal: for since there are among you envy, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as [other] men?
Meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
and said unto them, It is written, "My house shall be called a house of prayer," but ye have made it a den of robbers.
For every one who useth milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness: for he is an infant.
whose end is perdition, whose God is their belly, and their glory in their shame, whose minds are occupied with earthly things.
But he answering said, It is written, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
The Spirit is the life-giving power; the flesh contributeth nothing: the declarations which I make to you, they are spirit, and they are life.
For such are not servants to our Lord Jesus Christ, but to their own belly; and by smooth speeches and flattering commendations deceive the hearts of the guileless.
And with plausible speeches will they avariciously make gain of you whose condemnation from of old lingereth not, and their perdition doth not slumber.
For they who are after the flesh, mind the things of the flesh; but they who are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the propensity of the flesh is inimical against God: for it is not in subjection to the law of God, neither indeed can it be.
BUT there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers also among you, who wickedly introduce damnable heresies, and deny the sovereign Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
