Hebrews 5:12

American Standard Version (1901)

For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

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  • Heb 6:1 : 1 Wherefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on unto perfection; not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;
  • Heb 5:13 : 13 For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe.
  • 1 Cor 3:1-3 : 1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able [to bear it] : nay, not even now are ye able; 3 for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?
  • Isa 28:9-9 : 9 Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? 10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.
  • Acts 7:38 : 38 This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel that spake to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received living oracles to give unto us:
  • Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms [and] hymns [and] spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.
  • Titus 2:3-4 : 3 that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; 4 that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
  • 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 if any man speaketh, [speaking] as it were oracles of God; if any man ministereth, [ministering] as of the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
  • 1 Cor 14:19 : 19 howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
  • Phil 3:1 : 1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe.
  • 2 Sam 16:23 : 23 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
  • Ezra 7:10 : 10 For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Jehovah, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances.
  • Ps 34:11 : 11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of Jehovah.
  • Isa 55:1 : 1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
  • Matt 17:17 : 17 And Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring him hither to me.
  • Mark 9:19 : 19 And he answereth them and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring him unto me.
  • Rom 3:2 : 2 Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.

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    13For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe.

    14But solid food is for fullgrown men, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

  • Heb 5:11
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    11Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.

  • 1 Cor 3:1-4
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    1And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.

    2I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able [to bear it] : nay, not even now are ye able;

    3for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?

    4For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men?

  • 1 Pet 2:1-3
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    1Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

    2as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;

    3if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

  • Isa 28:9
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    9Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

  • 1 Tim 4:6
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    6If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast followed [until now] :

  • Heb 6:1-2
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    1Wherefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on unto perfection; not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

    2of the teaching of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

  • 1 Cor 14:20
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    20Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.

  • Gal 4:9-10
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    9but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?

    10Ye observe days, and months, and seasons, and years.

  • Rom 2:20
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    20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;

  • Heb 12:5
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    5and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;

  • 2 Pet 1:12
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    12Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with [you] .

  • Heb 6:4-6
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    4For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

    5and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,

    6and [then] fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

  • Eph 4:14
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    14that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

  • Heb 13:9
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    9Be not carried away by divers and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established by grace; not by meats, wherein they that occupied themselves were not profited.

  • 1 Cor 4:15
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    15For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.

  • 2 Tim 3:14-15
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    14But abide thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them.

    15And that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

  • Eph 4:20-21
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    20But ye did not so learn Christ;

    21if so be that ye heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

  • 1 Cor 13:11
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    11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

  • 1 Tim 1:6-7
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    6from which things some having swerved have turned aside unto vain talking;

    7desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.

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    8For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    9For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

  • Heb 2:1
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    1Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift away [from them] .

  • 2 Tim 3:7
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    7ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

  • Gal 4:3
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    3So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:

  • 2 Pet 3:17
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    17Ye therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness.

  • 2 Pet 2:20
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    20For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.

  • 1 Thess 5:1
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    1But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written unto you.

  • 2 Tim 4:3
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    3For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts;

  • 2 Tim 2:15
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    15Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

  • 1 Tim 4:15
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    15Be diligent in these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy progress may be manifest unto all.

  • Heb 6:11-12
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    11And we desire that each one of you may show the same diligence unto the fulness of hope even to the end:

    12that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

  • 1 Thess 5:12
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    12But we beseech you, brethren, to know them that labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

  • Heb 12:8
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    8But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

  • 1 Thess 2:7
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    7But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in [the time of] your ignorance: