Hebrews 5:13
For every one that is a partaker of milk, is unskillful in the word of justice: for he is a little child.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the hearing? them that are weaned from the milk, that are drawn away from the breasts.
Mark 10:15Amen I say to you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall not enter into it.
Romans 2:20An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.
1 Corinthians 3:1And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal. As unto little ones in Christ.
1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.
Ephesians 4:14That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive
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 →