Hebrews 5:12

For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need to be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and you are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

11Of whom we have much to say, and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear.

13For every one that is a partaker of milk, is unskillful in the word of justice: for he is a little child.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 16:23Now the counsel of Achitophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man should consult God: so was all the counsel of Achitophel, both when he was with David, and when he was with Absalom.

Psalms 34:11The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good.

Isaiah 28:13And the word of the Lord shall be to them: Command, command again; command, command again: expect, expect again; expect, expect again: a little there, a little there: that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Matthew 17:17And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went out of him, and the child was cured from that hour.

Acts 7:38This is he that was in the church in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on mount Sina, and with our fathers; who received the words of life to give unto us.

1 Corinthians 3:1And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal. As unto little ones in Christ.

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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