20 Bible Verses about Spiritual Malnutrition
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And I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you weren't yet ready. And even now you are still not ready, for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, are you not fleshly, and do you not walk in the ways of men?
"Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
You eat the fat, and you clothe yourself with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you do not feed the sheep.
He 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 everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
But he answered and said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'"
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
For those who are such do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old does not linger, and their destruction is not asleep.
As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the the Spirit is life and peace; because the mind set on the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.
But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
from men by your hand, LORD, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually.
Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace." and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on the LORD, and say, "Isn't the LORD in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us."
