Hebrews 5:13

for everyone who is partaking of milk [is] unskilled in the word of righteousness—for he is an infant,

Literal Standard Version

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

12for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again you have need that one teach you what [are] the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and you have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,

14and the strong food is of perfect men, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, to both the discernment of good and of evil.

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Cross References

Isaiah 28:9By whom does He teach knowledge? And by whom does He cause to understand the report? The weaned from milk, the removed from breasts,

Mark 10:15truly I say to you, whoever may not receive the Kingdom of God as a child—he may not enter into it”;

Romans 2:20a corrector of foolish ones, a teacher of babies, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the Law.

1 Corinthians 3:1And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly—as to babies in Christ;

1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, do not become children in the understanding, but in the evil be children, and in the understanding become perfect;

Ephesians 4:14that we may no longer be children, being tossed by waves and being carried around by every wind of the teaching, in the cunning of men, in craftiness, to the scheming of leading astray,

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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