Hebrews 5:13

Surely; whoever lives on milk is an infant, and therefore unskilled in the Word of righteousness.

Family 35 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

12Really, because although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary principles of God's oracles all over again; you have come to the point of needing milk, not solid food!

14On the other hand, solid food is for the mature, those who by habitual use have trained their senses to distinguish good from bad.

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Cross References

Mark 10:15I tell you assuredly, whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child does will certainly not enter it.”

Romans 2:20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and truth.

1 Corinthians 3:1Brothers, I was not able to address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, stop thinking like children—well, in malice be ‘infants’, but in thinking be adults.

Ephesians 4:14so that we no longer be ‘infants’, tossed about as by waves and carried off by every doctrinal fad, through the underhanded dealings of the people who collect the fee for the 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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