Hebrews 5:13
For every one that partakes of milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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
Mark 10:15Verily I say to you, Whoever will not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall not enter into it.
Romans 2:20an instructor of the simple, a teacher of the unlearned, because you have the form of true knowledge in the law;
1 Corinthians 3:1And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you, as to spiritual men, but as to those who are carnal, as to babes in Christ.
1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren, be not children in understanding: yet, in malice, be childlike; but, in understanding, be full-grown men.
Ephesians 4:14that we might no longer be children, tossed and carried about by every wind of teaching, through the artifice of men, through craftiness used by them for the deliberate planning of deceit;
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 →