Hebrews 5:13

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;
  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.
  • Isa 28:9 : 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?
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 that 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;
  • 2 Tim 3:16 : 16 Every scripture inspired of God [is] also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness.
  • Ps 119:123 : 123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, And for thy righteous word.
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 At that season Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes: [
  • Mark 10:15 : 15 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall in no wise enter therein.
  • Rom 1:17-18 : 17 For therein is revealed a righteousness of God from faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith. 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness;
  • 2 Cor 3:9 : 9 For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
  • Rom 10:5-6 : 5 For Moses writeth that the man that doeth the righteousness which is of the law shall live thereby. 6 But the righteousness which is of faith saith thus, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down:)
  • 1 Cor 3:1 : 1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.
  • 1 Cor 13:11 : 11 When 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.
  • Rom 2:20 : 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Heb 5:11-12
    2 verses
    85%

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

    12 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.

  • 1 Cor 3:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    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?

  • 1 Pet 2:1-3
    3 verses
    79%

    1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

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

    3 if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

  • Isa 28:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

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

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    10 but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.

    11 When 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.

  • 2 Pet 1:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

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

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

  • Eph 4:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13 till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

    14 that 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;

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    14 But abide thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them.

    15 And 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.

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

  • Heb 6:4-5
    2 verses
    67%

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

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

  • 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,

  • 5 and 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;

  • 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

  • 6 If 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] :

  • 24 His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of his bones is moistened.

  • 7 ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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

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

  • 9 Be 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.

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

    16 But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

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

  • 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.

  • 4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

  • 15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal unto you:

  • 39 And no man having drunk old [wine] desireth new; for he saith, The old is good.

  • 15 To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

  • 2 who can bear gently with the ignorant and erring, for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity;

  • 40 The disciple is not above his teacher: but every one when he is perfected shall be as his teacher.

  • 5 Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in [your] virtue knowledge;

  • 14 Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.

  • 20 But ye did not so learn Christ;

  • 5 that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all utterance and all knowledge;

  • 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.

  • 34 Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak [this] to move you to shame.

  • 9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right to them that find knowledge.

  • 30 For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.