1 Peter 2:2

World Messianic Bible British Edition

as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:5

Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire. Won’t he make it grow?

Job 17:9

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Hosea 14:5

I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.

Hosea 14:7

Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, and blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.

Hosea 6:3

Let’s acknowledge the LORD. Let’s press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, the LORD will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

Malachi 4:2

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall.

Matthew 18:3

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Matthew 19:14

But Yeshua said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

Mark 10:15

Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

Luke 18:17

Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn’t receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

Romans 6:4

We were buried therefore with him through immersion into death, that just as Messiah was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

Ephesians 2:21

in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

Ephesians 4:15

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Messiah,

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds,

1 Peter 1:23

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

2 Peter 3:18

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Yeshua the Messiah. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.