νήπιος

At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.

“Do You hear what these children are saying?” they asked. “Yes,” Jesus answered. “Have you never read: ‘From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise’?”

At that time Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.

…an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.

What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of everything.

So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.

On the contrary, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother caring for her children.

For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.