Hebrews 5:13

Advanced Teaching Hindered By Immaturity

¹² for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food, ¹³ for every one who is partaking of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness -- for he is an infant, ¹⁴ and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.

Like a Child

Like A Child

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

1 Peter 2:2

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

Isaiah 28:9

By whom doth He teach knowledge? And by whom doth He cause to understand the report? The weaned from milk, the removed from breasts,

Psalm 119:123

Mine eyes have been consumed for Thy salvation. And for the saying of Thy righteousness.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus answering said, 'I do confess to Thee, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that thou didst hide these things from wise and understanding ones, and didst reveal them to babes.

Mark 10:15

verily I say to you, whoever may not receive the reign of God, as a child -- he may not enter into it;'

Romans 1:17-18

For the righteousness of God in it is revealed from faith to faith, according as it hath been written, 'And the righteous one by faith shall live,'

Romans 10:5-6

for Moses doth describe the righteousness that is of the law, that, 'The man who did them shall live in them,'

1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

2 Corinthians 3:9

for if the ministration of the condemnation is glory, much more doth the ministration of the righteousness abound in glory;

Ephesians 4:14

that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,

2 Timothy 3:16

every Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness,

1 Corinthians 3:1

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;

Romans 2:20

an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law.