Hebrews 5:13

Advanced Teaching Hindered By Immaturity

¹² For also men who ought to be teachers because of the time, ye have need again for some man to teach you the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become men who have need of milk, and not of solid food. ¹³ For every man partaking of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is childlike. ¹⁴ But solid food is for mature men, those having their sensibilities trained through practice for the discernment of both good and evil.

Like a Child

Like A Child

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, become not children in your thoughts. Instead be childlike in wickedness, but in your thoughts become mature.

1 Peter 2:2

as newborn babes, long for the genuine intellectual milk, so that ye may grow by it,

Isaiah 28:9

Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

Psalm 119:123

My eyes fail for thy salvation, and for thy righteous word.

Matthew 11:25

Jesus having responded at that time, said, I extol thee, O Father, Lord of the heaven and the earth, because thou hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to the childlike.

Mark 10:15

Truly I say to you, whoever will not receive the kingdom of God as a child, he will, no, not enter it.

Romans 1:17-18

For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith for faith, just as it is written, And the righteous man will live from faith.

Romans 10:5-6

For Moses writes in the righteousness from the law, that the man that does them will live in them.

1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I abolished the childish things.

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the administration of condemnation has glory, the administration of righteousness excels much more in glory.

Ephesians 4:14

So that we may no longer be childish, tossed about and carried about by every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men in craftiness with the methodology of error.

2 Timothy 3:16

Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for instruction, for reproof, for correction, for discipline in righteousness,

1 Corinthians 3:1

And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, as to the childlike in Christ.

Romans 2:20

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the childlike, having in the law the essence of knowledge and truth,