Hebrews 5:13

For every one who feeds on milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness. He is still an infant.

Montgomery 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

12And this too, although you ought by this time to be teaching others, you are still needing some one to teach you the very rudiments of divine revelation. You need milk, not solid food.

14But solid food is for adults, that is, for those who by constant practise have their faculties trained to discriminate between good and evil.

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Cross References

Mark 10:15I tell you true that unless a man receives the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not even enter it."

Romans 2:20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the young, because you have in the Law the form of knowledge and of the truth - well then, you who are teaching others, do you ever teach yourself?

1 Corinthians 3:1As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, do not become children in understanding; be babes in malice, but in understanding become mature men.

Ephesians 4:14So we shall no longer be children, tossed up and down, and blown about by every wind of teaching, tricked by the craft of men in the snares of misleading 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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