1 Peter 2:2

New English Translation

And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:5

My dynasty is approved by God, for he has made a perpetual covenant with me, arranged in all its particulars and secured. He always delivers me, and brings all I desire to fruition.

Job 17:9

But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light, growing brighter and brighter until full day.

Hosea 14:5

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon.

Hosea 14:7

People will reside again in his shade; they will plant and harvest grain in abundance. They will blossom like a vine, and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon.

Hosea 6:3

So let us acknowledge him! Let us seek to acknowledge the Lord! He will come to our rescue as certainly as the appearance of the dawn, as certainly as the winter rain comes, as certainly as the spring rain that waters the land.”

Malachi 4:2

But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall.

Matthew 18:3

and said, “I tell you the truth, unless you turn around and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!

Matthew 19:14

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

Mark 10:15

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

Luke 18:17

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

Romans 6:4

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

Ephesians 2:21

In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

Ephesians 4:15

But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith flourishes more and more and the love of each one of you all for one another is ever greater.

1 Peter 1:23

You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, 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 honor both now and on that eternal day.