13 Bible Verses about Spiritual Immaturity

And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ.

Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing. And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food. For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child.read more.
But solid food is for men of full growth, even for those whose senses are trained by use to see what is good and what is evil.

I gave you milk and not meat, because you were, then, unable to take it, and even now you are not able;

My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.

But I say that as long as the son is a child, he is in no way different from a servant, though he is lord of all;

But is under keepers and managers till the time fixed by the father.

So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;

So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.

Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men?

I have knowledge of your works (see, I have put before you an open door which may be shut by no one), and that you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have been true to my name.