Hebrews 5:13

For everyone who still has to take milk knows nothing of the teaching of righteousness; they are a mere infant.

Open English Bible (UK)

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 whereas, considering the time that has elapsed, you ought to be teaching others, you still need someone to teach you the alphabet of the divine revelation, and need again to be fed with milk instead of with “solid food.”

14But solid food is for Christians of mature faith – those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish right from wrong.

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Cross References

Mark 10:15I tell you, unless a person receives the kingdom of God like a child, they will not enter it at all.’

Romans 2:20and a teacher of the childish, because in the Law you possess the outline of all knowledge and truth.

1 Corinthians 3:1But I, my friends, could not speak to you as people with spiritual insight, but only as worldly-minded – mere infants in the faith of Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:20My friends, do not show yourselves children in understanding. In wickedness be infants, but in understanding show yourselves adults.

Ephesians 4:14Then we will no longer be like infants, tossed backward and forward, blown about by every breath of human teaching and by people’s trickery and craftiness;

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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