¹³ For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is ^(A)a babe.

^2 (A)as newborn babes, desire the pure ^(B)milk of the word, that you may grow ^[a]thereby,

Tongues a Sign to Unbelievers

²⁰ Brethren, ^(A)do not be children in understanding; however, in malice ^(B)be babes, but in understanding be mature.

^16 (A)All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, ^(B)and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for ^[a]instruction in righteousness,

¹⁴ that we should no longer be ^(A)children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of ^(B)deceitful plotting,

Sectarianism Is Carnal

3 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to ^(A)babes in Christ.

⁹ For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry ^(A)of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.

¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.