Hebrews 5:13

For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.

Majority Standard Bible

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

12Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food!

14But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.

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Cross References

Isaiah 28:9Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast?

Mark 10:15Truly I tell you, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

Romans 2:20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth.

1 Corinthians 3:1Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

Ephesians 4:14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.

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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