Hebrews 5:13

For every one who useth milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness: for he is an infant.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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 ye ought for the time to be teachers of others, ye have again need that some one teach you the leading principles of the oracles of God; and are become as those who need milk, and not solid food.

14But solid nourishment is proper for grown men, even as many as by habit have their organs of perception exercised for the discernment both of good and evil.

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Cross References

Mark 10:15Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall in nowise enter into it.

Romans 2:20an instructor of the uninformed, a teacher of babes, holding the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.

1 Corinthians 3:1AND I, brethren, have been unable to speak to you as unto spiritual men, but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren, be not children in your minds: though in naughtiness be ye children, but in your minds be men complete.

Ephesians 4:14that we should be no longer infants, floating on the waves, and carried about with every wind of novel doctrine, by the juggling of men, by their craftiness after the delusive wiles of error;

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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