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

Concerning him I have much to say, and much that is hard to make clear to you, because you have grown dull of hearing. 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. For every one who feeds on milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness. He is still an infant.read more.
But solid food is for adults, that is, for those who by constant practise have their faculties trained to discriminate between good and evil.

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

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

What I mean is this. As long as the heir is a child, he differs in no respect from a slave, though he be the owner of the whole inheritance;

but is under the control of guardians and trustees, until the time appointed by his father.

So we Jews also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the empty externalities of the world.

So we shall no longer be children, tossed up and down, and blown about by every wind of teaching, tricked by the craft of men in the snares of misleading error;

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.

Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into salvation;

You are not able even now, for you are still unspiritual. While there is among you jealousy and strife, are you not still unspiritual, and behaving like worldlings?

I know your works. Lo, I have set before you an open door, which none can shut; for though you have only a little strength, you have kept my word, and have not denied my name.