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1 Peter 2 2
Like newborn infants, desire the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow up into your salvation,
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1 Corinthians 13 11
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things.
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Romans 16:19
The report of your obedience has reached everyone. Therefore I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise about what is good, and yet innocent about what is evil.
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1 Corinthians 2 6
We do, however, speak a wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
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Matthew 18:3
“ Truly I tell you,” he said,“ unless you turn and become like little children, you will never 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.
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Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus said,“ I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants.
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Philippians 1:9
And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment,
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1 Corinthians 3 1-1 Corinthians 3 2
For my part, brothers and sisters, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ.I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, since you were not yet ready for it. In fact, you are still not ready,
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Ephesians 4:14-15
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.But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into him who is the head— Christ.
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Philippians 3:15
Therefore, let all of us who are mature think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal this also to you.
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Hebrews 6:1-3
Therefore, let us leave the elementary teaching about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, faith in God,teaching about ritual washings, laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.And we will do this if God permits.
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Hebrews 5:12-13
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.
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Psalms 119:99
I have more insight than all my teachers because your decrees are my meditation.
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Mark 10:15
Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
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Psalms 131:1-2
LORD, my heart is not proud; my eyes are not haughty. I do not get involved with things too great or too wondrous for me.Instead, I have calmed and quieted my soul like a weaned child with its mother; my soul is like a weaned child.
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Isaiah 11:3
His delight will be in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, he will not execute justice by what he hears with his ears,
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Matthew 19:4
“ Haven’t you read,” he replied,“ that he who created them in the beginning made them male and female,