1 Peter 2:2

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Like newborn babes, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up to salvation;

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:5

Yea, does not my house stand so with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire?

Job 17:9

Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he that has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

Proverbs 4:18

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

Hosea 14:5

I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, he shall strike root as the poplar;

Hosea 14:7

They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow, they shall flourish as a garden; they shall blossom as the vine, their fragrance shall be like the wine of Lebanon.

Hosea 6:3

Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; his going forth is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”

Malachi 4:2

But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go forth leaping like calves from the stall.

Matthew 18:3

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

Matthew 19:14

but Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder 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 like a child shall not enter it.”

Luke 18:17

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

Romans 6:4

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; be babes in evil, but in thinking be mature.

Ephesians 2:21

in whom the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

Ephesians 4:15

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.

1 Peter 1:23

You have been born anew, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding 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.