Hebrews 5:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:
  • Isa 7:15 : 15 Butter and honey will be his food, when he is old enough to make a decision between evil and good.
  • Eph 1:18 : 18 And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,
  • Eph 4:13 : 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:
  • Phil 3:15 : 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:
  • 1 Cor 2:14-15 : 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. 15 But he who has the Spirit, though judging all things, is himself judged by no one.
  • 1 Kgs 3:9 : 9 Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?
  • Rom 14:1 : 1 Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.
  • Gen 3:5 : 5 For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.
  • 1 Thess 5:21 : 21 Let all things be tested; keep to what is good;
  • Phil 1:9-9 : 9 And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience; 10 So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;
  • Matt 5:48 : 48 Be then complete in righteousness, even as your Father in heaven is complete.
  • Matt 6:22-23 : 22 The light of the body is the eye; if then your eye is true, all your body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!
  • 2 Sam 14:17 : 17 Then your servant said, May the word of my lord the king give me peace! for my lord the king is as the angel of God in his hearing of good and bad: and may the Lord your God be with you!
  • Ps 119:103 : 103 How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth!
  • Song 1:3 : 3 Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.
  • Song 2:3 : 3 As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
  • 1 Kgs 3:11 : 11 And God said to him, Because your request is for this thing, and not for long life for yourself or for wealth or for the destruction of your haters, but for wisdom to be a judge of causes;
  • Job 6:30 : 30 Is there evil in my tongue? is not the cause of my trouble clear to me?
  • Job 12:11 : 11 Are not words tested by the ear, even as food is tasted by the mouth?
  • Job 34:3 : 3 For words are tested by the ear, as food is tasted by the mouth.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.

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  • Heb 5:11-13
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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.

    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.

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

  • 1 Cor 14:20
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    20 My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.

  • 1 Cor 3:1-2
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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;

  • 1 Pet 2:2-3
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    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?

  • 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,

  • Eph 4:13-14
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    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;

  • Heb 13:9
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    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.

  • Isa 7:15
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    15 Butter and honey will be his food, when he is old enough to make a decision between evil and good.

  • 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.

  • Titus 1:15
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    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.

  • 1 Tim 4:6-8
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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:

    7 But have nothing to do with unclean and foolish stories. Give yourself training in religion:

    8 For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.

  • 1 Cor 13:11
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    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 14:1-2
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    1 Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.

    2 One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.

  • Phil 3:15
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    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:

  • Prov 8:9
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    9 They are all true to him whose mind is awake, and straightforward to those who get knowledge.

  • Rom 8:5
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    5 For those who are living in the way of the flesh give their minds to the things of the flesh, but those who go in the way of the Spirit, to the things of the Spirit.

  • Rom 14:19-21
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    19 So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another.

    20 Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.

    21 It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.

  • Prov 1:4
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    4 To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:

  • 2 Tim 3:17
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    17 So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.

  • 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.

  • Eph 5:10
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    10 Testing by experience what is well-pleasing to the Lord;

  • 2 Pet 1:5-6
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    5 So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,

    6 And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,

  • 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.

  • 1 Thess 5:21
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    21 Let all things be tested; keep to what is good;

  • Heb 12:11
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    11 At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

  • Luke 5:39
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    39 And no man, having had old wine, has any desire for new, for he says, The old is better.

  • 1 Cor 8:8-9
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    8 But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.

    9 But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble.

  • 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.

  • Job 34:3
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    3 For words are tested by the ear, as food is tasted by the mouth.

  • 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,

  • Eph 4:19
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    19 Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

  • 1 Cor 2:14
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    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.

  • Rom 15:14
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    14 And I myself am certain of you, brothers, that you are full of what is good, complete in all knowledge, able to give direction to one another.

  • Rom 15:1
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    1 We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.