² Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation^(A)—

¹² For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic elements of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,^{(A) 13} for everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is unskilled in the word of righteousness.

¹⁵ but speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,^(A)

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.^[a]

On Divisions in the Corinthian Church

3 And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people but rather as fleshly, as infants in Christ.^{(A) 2} I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready,^(B)

¹⁵ Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.”^(A)

²⁰ Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults.^(A)

³ and said, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.^(A)