Hebrews 5:13

For every one whose food is milk, is unversed in the language of righteousness, because he is a child.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 ye ought to be teachers, seeing ye have been long in the doctrine. But now ye need to learn again the first lines of the commencement of the oracles of God: and ye have need of milk, and not of strong food.

14But strong food belongeth to the mature who, being investigators, have trained their faculties to discriminate good and evil.

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Cross References

Mark 10:15Verily I say to you, That whoever doth not receive the kingdom of God, like a little child, shall not enter it.

Romans 2:20and an instructor of those lacking knowledge, and a preceptor to the young; and thou hast the appearance of knowledge and of verity in the law:

1 Corinthians 3:1And I, my Brethren, could not talk with you, as with spiritual persons, but as with the carnal, as with babes in Messiah.

1 Corinthians 14:20My brethren, be ye not children in your thoughts; but to evil things be ye infants; and in your thoughts be men.

Ephesians 4:14and that we might not be children, agitated and turned about by every wind of the crafty doctrines of men who plot to seduce by their subtilty:

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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