Hebrews 5:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

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Referenced Verses

  • Heb 6:1 : 1 For this reason let us go on from the first things about Christ to full growth; not building again that on which it is based, that is, the turning of the heart from dead works, and faith in God,
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;
  • Heb 5:13 : 13 For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child.
  • 1 Cor 3:1-3 : 1 And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ. 2 I gave you milk and not meat, because you were, then, unable to take it, and even now you are not able; 3 Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men?
  • Isa 28:9-9 : 9 To whom will he give knowledge? and to whom will he make clear the word? Will it be to those who have newly given up milk, and who have only now been taken from the breast? 10 For it is one rule after another; one line after another; here a little, there a little.
  • Acts 7:38 : 38 This is the man who was in the church in the waste land with the angel who was talking to him in Sinai, and with our fathers; and to him were given the living words of God, so that he might give them to you.
  • Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.
  • Titus 2:3-4 : 3 That old women are to be self-respecting in behaviour, not saying evil of others, not given to taking much wine, teachers of that which is good, 4 Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children,
  • 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 If anyone has anything to say, let it be as the words of God; if anyone has the desire to be the servant of others, let him do it in the strength which is given by God; so that in all things God may have the glory through Jesus Christ, whose are the glory and the power for ever.
  • 1 Cor 14:19 : 19 But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.
  • Phil 3:1 : 1 For the rest, my brothers, be glad in the Lord. Writing the same things to you is no trouble to me, and for you it is safe.
  • 2 Sam 16:23 : 23 In those days the opinions of Ahithophel were valued as highly as if through him a man might get direction from God; so were they valued by David as much as by Absalom.
  • Ezra 7:10 : 10 For Ezra had given his mind to learning the law of the Lord and doing it, and to teaching his rules and decisions in Israel.
  • Ps 34:11 : 11 Come, children, give attention to me; I will be your teacher in the fear of the Lord.
  • Isa 55:1 : 1 Ho! everyone in need, come to the waters, and he who has no strength, let him get food: come, get bread without money; wine and milk without price.
  • Matt 17:17 : 17 And Jesus, answering, said, O false and foolish generation, how long will I be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come here to me.
  • Mark 9:19 : 19 And he said to them in answer, O generation without faith, how long will I have to be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come to me.
  • Rom 3:2 : 2 Much in every way: first of all because the words of God were given to them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 5:13-14
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    13 For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child.

    14 But solid food is for men of full growth, even for those whose senses are trained by use to see what is good and what is evil.

  • Heb 5:11
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    11 Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing.

  • 1 Cor 3:1-4
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    1 And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ.

    2 I gave you milk and not meat, because you were, then, unable to take it, and even now you are not able;

    3 Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men?

    4 For when one says, I am of Paul; and another says, I am of Apollos; are you not talking like natural men?

  • 1 Pet 2:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1 So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

    2 Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

    3 If you have had a taste of the grace of the Lord:

  • Isa 28:9
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    9 To whom will he give knowledge? and to whom will he make clear the word? Will it be to those who have newly given up milk, and who have only now been taken from the breast?

  • 1 Tim 4:6
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    6 If you keep these things before the minds of the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the right teaching which has been your guide:

  • Heb 6:1-2
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    73%

    1 For this reason let us go on from the first things about Christ to full growth; not building again that on which it is based, that is, the turning of the heart from dead works, and faith in God,

    2 The teaching of baptisms, and of the putting on of hands, and of the future life of the dead, and of the judging on the last day.

  • 1 Cor 14:20
    72%

    20 My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.

  • Gal 4:9-10
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    9 But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

    10 You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years.

  • Rom 2:20
    71%

    20 A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;

  • Heb 12:5
    71%

    5 And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him;

  • 2 Pet 1:12
    70%

    12 For this reason I will be ready at all times to keep your memory of these things awake, though you have the knowledge of them now and are well based in your present faith.

  • Heb 6:4-6
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    4 As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit,

    5 With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time,

    6 And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him.

  • Eph 4:14
    70%

    14 So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

  • Heb 13:9
    69%

    9 Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.

  • 1 Cor 4:15
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    15 For even if you had ten thousand teachers in Christ, you have not more than one father: for in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.

  • 2 Tim 3:14-15
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    14 But see that you keep to the teaching you have been given and the things of which you are certain, conscious of who has been your teacher;

    15 And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.

  • Eph 4:20-21
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    20 For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;

    21 If in fact you gave ear to him, and were given teaching in him, even as what is true is made clear in Jesus:

  • 1 Cor 13:11
    68%

    11 When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child.

  • 1 Tim 1:6-7
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    68%

    6 From which some have been turned away, giving themselves to foolish talking;

    7 Desiring to be teachers of the law, though they have no knowledge of what they say or of the statements which they make so certainly.

  • 2 Pet 1:8-9
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    8 For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    9 For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.

  • Heb 2:1
    67%

    1 For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.

  • 2 Tim 3:7
    67%

    7 Ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of what is true.

  • Gal 4:3
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    3 So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;

  • 2 Pet 3:17
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    17 For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith.

  • 2 Pet 2:20
    66%

    20 For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

  • 1 Thess 5:1
    66%

    1 But about the times and their order, my brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you.

  • 2 Tim 4:3
    66%

    3 For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;

  • 2 Tim 2:15
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    15 Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.

  • 1 Tim 4:15
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    15 Have a care for these things; give yourself to them with all your heart, so that all may see how you go forward.

  • Heb 6:11-12
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    11 And it is our desire that you may all keep the same high purpose in certain hope to the end:

    12 So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.

  • 1 Thess 5:12
    66%

    12 But we make this request to you, my brothers: give attention to those who are working among you, who are over you in the Lord to keep order among you;

  • Heb 12:8
    66%

    8 But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.

  • 1 Thess 2:7
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    7 But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14 Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge: