Hebrews 5:12

For though you ought to be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

11On this topic we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

13Anyone who lives on milk is unacquainted with the teaching about righteousness, for he is an infant.

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Cross References

Matthew 17:17Jesus answered, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

Acts 7:38This is the man who was with our fathers in the assembly in the wilderness when the angel spoke to him on Mount Sinai. He received living oracles to give to us.

1 Corinthians 3:1And so, brothers, I could not address you as spiritual men, but as men of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

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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