13 Bible Verses about Spiritual Immaturity

Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ.

We have a great deal to say about this, and it’s difficult to explain, since you have become too lazy to understand. Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the basic principles of God’s revelation again. You need milk, not solid food. Now everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced with the message about righteousness, because he is an infant. read more.
But solid food is for the mature—for those whose senses have been trained to distinguish between good and evil.

I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you were not yet ready for it. In fact, you are still not ready,

Brothers, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.

Now I say that as long as the heir is a child, he differs in no way from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.

Instead, he is under guardians and stewards until the time set by his father.

In the same way we also, when we were children, were in slavery under the elemental forces of the world.

Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.

Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the basic principles of God’s revelation again. You need milk, not solid food.

Like newborn infants, desire the pure spiritual milk, so that you may grow by it for your salvation,

Leave inexperience behind, and you will live;
pursue the way of understanding.

because you are still fleshly. For since there is envy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and living like unbelievers?

I know your works. Because you have limited strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name, look, I have placed before you an open door that no one is able to close.