Thematic Bible: Marks of
Thematic Bible
Childhood » Marks of » Petty complaints
Childhood » Marks of » Foolishness
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;
The rod of discipline [correction administered with godly wisdom and lovingkindness] will remove it far from him.
Childhood » Marks of » Fickleness
So that we are no longer children [spiritually immature], tossed back and forth [like ships on a stormy sea] and carried about by every wind of [shifting] doctrine, by the cunning and trickery of [unscrupulous] men, by the deceitful scheming of people ready to do anything [for personal profit].
Verse Concepts
Childhood » Marks of » Credulity
The naive or inexperienced person [is easily misled and] believes every word he hears,
But the prudent man [is discreet and astute and] considers well where he is going.
Childhood » Marks of » Need of rulers
but he is under [the authority of] guardians and household administrators or managers until the date set by his father [when he is of legal age].
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Childhood » Marks of » Dependence
Was it I who conceived all these people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your arms as a nurse carries the nursing infant, to the land which You swore to their fathers’?
Verse Concepts
Childhood » Marks of » Weak digestion
For everyone who lives on milk is [doctrinally inexperienced and] unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a spiritual infant.
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Childhood » Marks of » Ignorance
For though by this time you ought to be teachers [because of the time you have had to learn these truths], you actually need someone to teach you again the elementary principles of God’s word [from the beginning], and you have come to be continually in need of milk, not solid food.
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