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1 Peter 2 2
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, (niv)
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1 Corinthians 13 11
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. (niv)
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Romans 16:19
Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice because of you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil. (niv)
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1 Corinthians 2 6
We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. (niv)
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Matthew 18:3
And he said:“ Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. (niv)
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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 glory both now and forever! Amen. (niv)
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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 learned, and revealed them to little children. (niv)
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Philippians 1:9
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, (niv)
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1 Corinthians 3 1-1 Corinthians 3 2
Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly— mere infants in Christ.I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. (niv)
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Ephesians 4:14-15
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. (niv)
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Philippians 3:15
All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. (niv)
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Hebrews 6:1-3
Therefore let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God,instruction about cleansing rites, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.And God permitting, we will do so. (niv)
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Hebrews 5:12-13
In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. (niv)
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Psalms 119:99
I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes. (niv)
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Mark 10:15
Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” (niv)
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Psalms 131:1-2
My heart is not proud, Lord, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me.But I have calmed and quieted myself, I am like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child I am content. (niv)
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Isaiah 11:3
and he will delight in the fear of the Lord. He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears; (niv)
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Matthew 19:4
“ Haven’t you read,” he replied,“ that at the beginning the Creator‘ made them male and female,’ (niv)