1 Peter 2:2

Modern English Version

As newborn babies, desire the pure milk of the word, that by it you may grow,

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:5

Is not my house like this with God? For He made an everlasting covenant with me, ordered in all things and secure. For this is all my salvation and all my desire; will He not make it flourish?

Job 17:9

The righteous also will hold to his way, and he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until the full daytime.

Hosea 14:5

I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall grow like the lily and shall strike his roots like Lebanon.

Hosea 14:7

Those that dwell under his shadow will return, they will flourish like the grain and grow as a vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.

Hosea 6:3

Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord. His appearance is as sure as the dawn. He will come to us like the rain; like the spring rains He will water the earth.

Malachi 4:2

But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. You will go out and grow up like calves from the stall.

Matthew 18:3

and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like little children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:14

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them. For to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”

Mark 10:15

Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall not enter it.”

Luke 18:17

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

Romans 6:4

Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

1 Corinthians 14:20

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

Ephesians 2:21

in whom the entire building, tightly framed together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

Ephesians 4:15

But, speaking the truth in love, we may grow up in all things into Him, who is the head, Christ Himself,

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We are bound to thank God always for you, brothers, as it is fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you abounds toward each other.

1 Peter 1:23

for you have been born again, not from perishable seed, but imperishable, through the word of God which lives and abides forever.

2 Peter 3:18

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be glory, both now and forever. Amen.