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Babes » Figurative » Of weak Christians
an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, who have the form of knowledge and of the truth in the Law.
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And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual ones, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ.
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For everyone partaking of milk is unskillful in the Word of Righteousness, for he is an infant.
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desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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Children » Figurative
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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When I was an infant, I spoke as an infant, I thought as an infant, I reasoned as an infant. But when I became a man, I did away with the things of an infant.
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Brothers, do not be children in your minds, but in malice be like infants, and in your minds be mature.
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Desires » Select readings, psalms 42; 84 ps 42; 84 » General references to
One thing I have desired from Jehovah, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to pray in His temple.
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My soul breaks for the longing that it has to Your judgments at all times.
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Whom have I in Heaven? And besides You I desire none on earth.
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With my soul I desired You in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
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desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.
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And all Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought Him with their whole desire. And He was found by them, and Jehovah gave them rest all around.
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A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
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My Lord, all my desire is before You; and my sighing is not hidden from You.
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I opened my mouth and panted; for I longed for Your Commandments.
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Desires » What to desire
Follow after charity and desire spiritual things, but rather that you may prophesy.
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And you are the body of Christ, and members in part. And God set some in the church, firstly, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers, then works of power, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, kinds of languages. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of power? read more.
Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak languages? Do all interpret? But zealously strive after the better gifts. And yet I show to you a more excellent way.
Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak languages? Do all interpret? But zealously strive after the better gifts. And yet I show to you a more excellent way.
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it; if truly you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
spiritual Development » Spiritual growth, encouraged » Through "the word"
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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Envy » Hinders growth in grace
Therefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings, and all evil speakings, desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ,
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night and day praying exceedingly for me to see your face and to perfect the things lacking in your faith?
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and not holding the Head, from whom all the body, having been supplied through the joints and bands, and having been joined together, will grow with the growth of God.
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But grow in grace and in knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
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But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.
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We are bound to thank God always for you, my brothers, as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another;
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They go from strength to strength, appearing in Zion before God.
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And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and in all perception; that you may distinguish between things that differ, that you may be sincere and without offense until the day of Jesus Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I also was taken hold of by Christ Jesus. My brothers, I do not count myself to have taken possession, but one thing I do, forgetting the things behind and reaching forward to the things before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. read more.
Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be of this mind. And if in anything you are otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this to you.
Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be of this mind. And if in anything you are otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this to you.
that you might walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every work and increasing in the knowledge of God, being empowered with all power, according to the might of His glory, to all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness,
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And may the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all, even as we also toward you, in order to establish your hearts blameless in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.
Therefore, having left the discourse of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to full growth, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the baptisms, of doctrine, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this we will do, if God permits.
Therefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings, and all evil speakings, desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it; if truly you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
spiritual Growth » Encouraged » Through "the word"
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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Hunger » Select readings ps 42; 84 » General references to
One thing I have desired from Jehovah, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to pray in His temple.
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My soul breaks for the longing that it has to Your judgments at all times.
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Whom have I in Heaven? And besides You I desire none on earth.
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With my soul I desired You in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
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desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.
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And all Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought Him with their whole desire. And He was found by them, and Jehovah gave them rest all around.
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A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
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My Lord, all my desire is before You; and my sighing is not hidden from You.
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I opened my mouth and panted; for I longed for Your Commandments.
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Hunger » Spiritual
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness! For they shall be filled.
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Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.
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yea, if you cry after knowledge and lift up your voice for understanding; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures, then you shall understand the fear of Jehovah and find the knowledge of God.
Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you weigh silver for what is not bread? and your labor for what never satisfies? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Behold, the days come, says the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the Words of Jehovah. And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the Word of Jehovah, and shall not find it. In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst.
spiritual Immaturity » Continuance in the primary department
For indeed because of the time, you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again what are the first principles of the oracles of God. And you have become in need of milk, and not of solid food.
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desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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Spiritual life » Seek to grow in
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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But that you, speaking the truth in love, may in all things grow up to Him who is the Head, even Christ;
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Malice » A hindrance to growth in grace
Therefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings, and all evil speakings, desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
Milk » Figuratite
I have fed you with milk and not with solid food, for you were not yet able to bear it; nor are you able even now.
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And I am coming down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, to bring them up out of that land, to a good land, a large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
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And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.
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desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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so that I may fulfil the oath which I have sworn to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then I answered and said, Amen, O Jehovah.
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Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
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And they told him and said, We came to the land where you sent us, and surely it flows with milk and honey. And this is the fruit of it.
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And You have given them this land, which You swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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You will also suck the milk of nations, and suck the breast of kings; and you will know that I Jehovah am your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
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to a land flowing with milk and honey. For I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way.
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And it shall be, in that day the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
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Look down from Your holy dwelling, from Heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us, as You swore to our fathers, a land that flows with milk and honey.
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in the day that I lifted up My hand to them, to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
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And it shall be when Jehovah shall bring you into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.
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And He has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land that flows with milk and honey.
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For indeed because of the time, you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again what are the first principles of the oracles of God. And you have become in need of milk, and not of solid food. For everyone partaking of milk is unskillful in the Word of Righteousness, for he is an infant.
Milk » Illustrative of » First principles of God's word
I have fed you with milk and not with solid food, for you were not yet able to bear it; nor are you able even now.
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For indeed because of the time, you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again what are the first principles of the oracles of God. And you have become in need of milk, and not of solid food.
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desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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Names » Of the word of God » Word
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
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Study earnestly to present yourself approved to God, a workman that does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.
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holding forth the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice with you in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain nor labored in vain.
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desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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But He said, No; rather, blessed are they who hear the Word of God and keep it.
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Therefore putting aside all filthiness and overflowing of evil, receive in meekness the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls.
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New Birth » All saints partake of
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. And everyone who loves Him who begets also loves him who has been born of Him.
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The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. And if we are children, then we are heirs; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; so that if we suffer with Him, we may also be glorified together.
Righteous » Compared with » Babies
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank You, O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the sophisticated and cunning, and revealed them to babes.
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desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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compared to Saints » Babes
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank You, O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the sophisticated and cunning, and revealed them to babes.
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desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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The scriptures » Are called the » Word
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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Therefore putting aside all filthiness and overflowing of evil, receive in meekness the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls. But become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man studying his natural face in a mirror.
The scriptures » Designed for » Promoting growth in grace
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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Simplicity » Childlikeness an essential element in the Christian life
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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Truly I say to you, Whoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter into it.
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But Jesus called them and said, Allow the little children to come to Me, and forbid them not. For of such is the kingdom of God.
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Surely I have behaved and have quieted my soul, as one weaned by its mother; my soul on me is like one weaned.
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Brothers, do not be children in your minds, but in malice be like infants, and in your minds be mature.
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Simplicity » Exhortation to
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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For your obedience reached to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf, But I would have you truly wise as to good, and simple toward evil.
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Sincerity » A characteristic of the doctrines of the gospel
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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Sincerity » Characteristic of » The gospel
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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Spiritual » Hunger select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Ps 42; 84
One thing I have desired from Jehovah, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to pray in His temple.
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My soul breaks for the longing that it has to Your judgments at all times.
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Whom have I in Heaven? And besides You I desire none on earth.
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With my soul I desired You in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
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desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.
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And all Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought Him with their whole desire. And He was found by them, and Jehovah gave them rest all around.
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A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
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My Lord, all my desire is before You; and my sighing is not hidden from You.
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I opened my mouth and panted; for I longed for Your Commandments.
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Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Ps 42; 84
One thing I have desired from Jehovah, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to pray in His temple.
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My soul breaks for the longing that it has to Your judgments at all times.
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Whom have I in Heaven? And besides You I desire none on earth.
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With my soul I desired You in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
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desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.
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And all Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought Him with their whole desire. And He was found by them, and Jehovah gave them rest all around.
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A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
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My Lord, all my desire is before You; and my sighing is not hidden from You.
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I opened my mouth and panted; for I longed for Your Commandments.
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Spiritual » Immaturity » Continuance in the primary department
For indeed because of the time, you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again what are the first principles of the oracles of God. And you have become in need of milk, and not of solid food.
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desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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Spiritual » Encouraged » Through "the word"
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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The word of God » Despised by the foolish » Food for the soul
How sweet are Your Words to my taste! More than honey to my mouth!
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And He humbled you and allowed you to hunger, and then He fed you with manna, which you did not know, neither did your fathers know it, so that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of Jehovah man shall live.
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desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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But He answered and said, It is written, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God."
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nor have I gone back from the commandment of His lips; I treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion.
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Your Words were found, and I ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and gladness of my heart; for I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, the God of Hosts.
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But you, son of man, hear what I am saying to you. Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.
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And He said to me, Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this roll, and go speak to the house of Israel.
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The word of God » Called » The word
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
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Therefore putting aside all filthiness and overflowing of evil, receive in meekness the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls. But become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man studying his natural face in a mirror.