Hebrews 5:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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;
  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.
  • Isa 28:9 : 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?
  • Eph 4:14 : 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;
  • 2 Tim 3:16 : 16 Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:
  • Ps 119:123 : 123 My eyes are wasted with desire for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.
  • Mark 10:15 : 15 Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.
  • Rom 1:17-18 : 17 For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith. 18 For there is a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all the wrongdoing and evil thoughts of men who keep down what is true by wrongdoing;
  • 2 Cor 3:9 : 9 For if the operation of the law, producing punishment, had its glory, how much greater will be the operation of the Spirit causing righteousness?
  • Rom 10:5-6 : 5 For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it. 6 But the righteousness which is of faith says these words, Say not in your heart, Who will go up to heaven? (that is, to make Christ come down:)
  • 1 Cor 3:1 : 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.
  • 1 Cor 13:11 : 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.
  • Rom 2:20 : 20 A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 5:14
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    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 5:11-12
    2 verses
    85%

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

    12 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.

  • 1 Cor 3:1-3
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    80%

    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?

  • 1 Pet 2:1-3
    3 verses
    79%

    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 28:9-10
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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?

    10 For it is one rule after another; one line after another; here a little, there a little.

  • 1 Cor 14:20
    74%

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

  • 1 Cor 13:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10 But when that which is complete is come, then that which is in part will be no longer necessary.

    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.

  • 2 Pet 1:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

  • Eph 4:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13 Till we all come to the harmony of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to full growth, to the full measure of Christ:

    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;

  • 2 Tim 3:14-15
    2 verses
    68%

    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.

  • Rom 2:20
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    20 A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;

  • Heb 6:4-5
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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,

  • Heb 6:1
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    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,

  • Heb 12:5
    67%

    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;

  • Isa 7:15
    67%

    15 Butter and honey will be his food, when he is old enough to make a decision between evil and good.

  • 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:

  • Job 21:24
    66%

    24 His buckets are full of milk, and there is no loss of strength in his bones.

  • 2 Tim 3:7
    66%

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

  • 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 Pet 1:14
    66%

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

  • Heb 13:9
    66%

    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.

  • 2 Tim 2:15-16
    2 verses
    66%

    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.

    16 But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil,

  • 1 Tim 1:7
    66%

    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.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
    65%

    7 For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

  • Lam 4:4
    65%

    4 The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.

  • Phil 3:15
    65%

    15 Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:

  • Luke 5:39
    65%

    39 And no man, having had old wine, has any desire for new, for he says, The old is better.

  • Titus 1:15
    65%

    15 To the clean in heart all things are clean: but to those who are unclean and without faith nothing is clean; they become unclean in mind and in thought.

  • Heb 5:2
    65%

    2 He is able to have feeling for those who have no knowledge and for those who are wandering from the true way, because he himself is feeble;

  • Luke 6:40
    65%

    40 The disciple is not greater than his master, but everyone whose learning is complete will be like his master.

  • 2 Pet 1:5
    65%

    5 So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,

  • 1 Cor 2:14
    65%

    14 For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.

  • Eph 4:20
    65%

    20 For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;

  • 1 Cor 1:5
    65%

    5 So that in him you have wealth in all things, in word and in knowledge of every sort;

  • Jas 3:13
    65%

    13 Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.

  • 1 Cor 15:34
    65%

    34 Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.

  • Prov 8:9
    64%

    9 They are all true to him whose mind is awake, and straightforward to those who get knowledge.

  • 1 Cor 11:30
    64%

    30 For this cause a number of you are feeble and ill, and a number are dead.