¹³ for everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is unskilled in the word of righteousness.

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

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

¹⁶ All scripture is inspired by God and is^[a] useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,^(A)

¹⁴ We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming;^(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)

⁹ For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation,^[a] much more does the ministry of justification abound in glory!^(A)

¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways.