Verse 13

For everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is still an infant.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow in your salvation,
  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in regard to evil, but in your thinking be mature.
  • Isa 28:9 : 9 Who is He trying to teach knowledge to? Who is He explaining His message to? To those just weaned from milk, those just taken from the breast?
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.
  • 2 Tim 3:16 : 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
  • Ps 119:123 : 123 My eyes long for Your salvation and for the fulfillment of Your righteous promise.
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time Jesus said, 'I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.'
  • Mark 10:15 : 15 'Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.'
  • Rom 1:17-18 : 17 For in the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: 'The righteous will live by faith.' 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness.
  • 2 Cor 3:9 : 9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness far exceeds it in glory.
  • Rom 10:5-6 : 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.” 6 But the righteousness that is based on faith speaks as follows: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down)
  • 1 Cor 3:1 : 1 And I, brothers and sisters, could not speak to you as spiritual people but as those who are worldly, as infants in Christ.
  • 1 Cor 13:11 : 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
  • Rom 2:20 : 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the form of knowledge and truth—