1 Peter 2:2

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Summary

1 Peter 2:2

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

New-born

The sincere

1 Corinthians 3:2

Hebrews 5:12

Grow

General references

John 10:5

Bible References

New-born

For you have been born anew, not of perishable, but of imperishable seed, by the living, lasting word of God.

"In solemn truth I tell you that unless you turn and become like little children, you will not even enter the kingdom of heaven.

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

We have been buried together with him, then, through baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should live in a newness of life.

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

Brothers, do not become children in understanding; be babes in malice, but in understanding become mature men.

The sincere

I fed you milk, not meat; for you were unable to bear it.

And 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.

Grow

In him the whole building, fitly framed together, rises into a holy temple in the Lord;

but holding the truth in love we shall grow up in every part into him who is our Head, even Christ.

I ought always to thank God for you, brothers, as is fitting because of the abundant growth of your faith and of the overflowing love with which every one of you is filled toward one another.

But grow continually in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and unto the Day of Eternity, Amen.

General references

"But a stranger they will not follow, but flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."