Hebrews 5:13

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

Text-Critical English NT

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 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.

14But solid food is for the mature, whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish between good and evil.

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Cross References

Mark 10:15Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will certainly not enter it.”

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

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

1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, do not be childish in your way of thinking. Rather, as to malice be infants, but in your way of thinking be mature.

Ephesians 4:14So we must no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men and their craftiness in 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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