Hebrews 5:12
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need of one to teach you again which are the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong food.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
11Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
13For every one that useth milk, is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
Cross References
2 Samuel 16:23And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counseled in those days, was as if a man had inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
Psalms 34:11Come, ye children, hearken to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Isaiah 28:13But the word of the LORD was to them, precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Matthew 17:17Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
Acts 7:38This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the living oracles to give to us:
1 Corinthians 3:1And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ.
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 →