1 Peter 2:2

Legacy Standard Bible

like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:5

Truly is not my house so with God? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me, Ordered in all things, and secured; For all my salvation and all my desire, Will He not indeed make it grow?

Job 17:9

“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will grow mightier and mightier.

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, That shines brighter and brighter until the fullness of day.

Hosea 14:5

I will be like the dew to Israel; He will flourish like the lily, And he will take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

Hosea 14:7

Those who live in his shadow Will again raise grain, And they will flourish like the vine. His name of remembrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.

Hosea 6:3

“So let us know, let us pursue to know Yahweh. His going forth is established as the dawn; And He will come to us like the rain, Like the late rain watering the earth.”

Malachi 4:2

“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.

Matthew 18:3

and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:14

But Jesus said, “Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

Mark 10:15

Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.”

Luke 18:17

Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”

Romans 6:4

Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking; rather in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

Ephesians 2:21

in whom the whole building, being joined together, is growing into a holy sanctuary in the Lord,

Ephesians 4:15

but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, that is Christ,

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is only fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another increases all the more,

1 Peter 1:23

for you have been born again not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.

2 Peter 3:18

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.