Hebrews 5:13

For everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

Revised King James 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 by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need for someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

14But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, those who by practice have their senses trained to discern both good and evil.

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Cross References

Mark 10:15Truly I say to you, Whoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall not enter it at all.

Romans 2:20An instructor for the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the embodiment of knowledge and truth in the law:

1 Corinthians 3:1And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of the flesh, as babes in Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren, do not be children in understanding: in evil be infants, but in understanding be men.

Ephesians 4:14That we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by 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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