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1 Peter 2 2
and like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,
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1 Corinthians 13 11
When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
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Romans 16:19
For the report of your obedience has reached everyone; therefore I am rejoicing over you, but I want you to be wise in what is good, and innocent in what is evil.
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1 Corinthians 2 6
Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;
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Matthew 18:3
and said,“ Truly I say to you, unless you change and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.
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2 Peter 3 18
but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
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Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus said,“ I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to infants.
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Philippians 1:9
And this I pray, that your love may overflow still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,
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1 Corinthians 3 1-1 Corinthians 3 2
And I, brothers and sisters, could not speak to you as spiritual people, but only as fleshly, as to infants in Christ.I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to consume it. But even now you are not yet able,
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Ephesians 4:14-15
As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of people, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, that is, Christ,
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Philippians 3:15
Therefore, all who are mature, let’s have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that to you as well;
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Hebrews 6:1-3
Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and about the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.And this we will do, if God permits.
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Hebrews 5:12-13
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the actual words of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.For everyone who partakes only of milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.
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Psalms 119:99
I have more insight than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation.
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Mark 10:15
Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.”
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Psalms 131:1-2
Lord, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes arrogant; Nor do I involve myself in great matters, Or in things too difficult for me.I have certainly soothed and quieted my soul; Like a weaned child resting against his mother, My soul within me is like a weaned child.
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Isaiah 11:3
And He will delight in the fear of the Lord, And He will not judge by what His eyes see, Nor make decisions by what His ears hear;
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Matthew 19:4
And He answered and said,“ Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female,