Hebrews 5:13
For every man partaking of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is childlike.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 28:9Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
Mark 10:15Truly I say to you, whoever will not receive the kingdom of God as a child, he will, no, not enter it.
Romans 2:20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the childlike, having in the law the essence of knowledge and truth,
1 Corinthians 3:1And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, as to the childlike in Christ.
1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, become not children in your thoughts. Instead be childlike in wickedness, but in your thoughts become mature.
Ephesians 4:14So that we may no longer be childish, tossed about and carried about by every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men in craftiness with the methodology of error.
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 5:11-14
The Priesthood of Christ. ( a. d. 62.) 10 Called of God a high priest after the order of Melchisedec. 11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. 12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 14 But strong meat… Read the whole commentary →