Hebrews 5:13
11 We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.
12 Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food!
For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.
14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.
- KJV
- For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
- WEB
- For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
- ASV
- For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe.
- DARBY
- For every one that partakes of milk [is] unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe;
- BLB
- For everyone partaking of milk [is] inexperienced in the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.
- ÅB
- For hver den som får melk, er ukyndig i rettferds ord, for han er jo et barn;
- OTB
- For enhver som lever på melk er ukjent med læren om rettferdighet, for han er fortsatt et spedbarn.
- B1930
- For hver den som får melk, er ukyndig i rettferds ord, for han er jo et barn;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Peter 2:2
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
Read in context1 Corinthians 14:20
Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
Read in context2 Timothy 3:16
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Read in contextEphesians 4:14
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.
Read in contextIsaiah 28:9
Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast?
Read in context1 Corinthians 3:1
Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.
Read in context1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.
Read in context2 Corinthians 3:9
For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!
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