Hebrews 5:13

For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child.

Bible in Basic English

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

12And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

14But solid food is for men of full growth, even for those whose senses are trained by use to see what is good and what is evil.

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Cross References

Isaiah 28:9To whom will he give knowledge? and to whom will he make clear the word? Will it be to those who have newly given up milk, and who have only now been taken from the breast?

Mark 10:15Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.

Romans 2:20A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;

1 Corinthians 3:1And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:20My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.

Ephesians 4:14So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits 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 →

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