Hebrews 5:13

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For everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is still an infant.

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  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow in your salvation,
  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in regard to evil, but in your thinking be mature.
  • Isa 28:9 : 9 Who is He trying to teach knowledge to? Who is He explaining His message to? To those just weaned from milk, those just taken from the breast?
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.
  • 2 Tim 3:16 : 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
  • Ps 119:123 : 123 My eyes long for Your salvation and for the fulfillment of Your righteous promise.
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time Jesus said, 'I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.'
  • Mark 10:15 : 15 'Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.'
  • Rom 1:17-18 : 17 For in the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: 'The righteous will live by faith.' 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness.
  • 2 Cor 3:9 : 9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness far exceeds it in glory.
  • Rom 10:5-6 : 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.” 6 But the righteousness that is based on faith speaks as follows: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down)
  • 1 Cor 3:1 : 1 And I, brothers and sisters, could not speak to you as spiritual people but as those who are worldly, as infants in Christ.
  • 1 Cor 13:11 : 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
  • Rom 2:20 : 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the form of knowledge and truth—

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 5:14
    85%

    14But solid food is for the mature, those who through practice have trained their senses to discern good from evil.

  • Heb 5:11-12
    2 verses
    85%

    11We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain because you have become dull in hearing.

    12By this time you ought to be teachers, but instead you need someone to teach you again the elementary truths of God's word, and you need milk, not solid food.

  • 1 Cor 3:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    1And I, brothers and sisters, could not speak to you as spiritual people but as those who are worldly, as infants in Christ.

    2I fed you with milk, not solid food, because you were not able to receive it. Even now, you are still not able.

    3For you are still worldly. Since there is jealousy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not worldly and living like mere humans?

  • 1 Pet 2:1-3
    3 verses
    79%

    1Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and every kind of slander.

    2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow in your salvation,

    3if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

  • Isa 28:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9Who is He trying to teach knowledge to? Who is He explaining His message to? To those just weaned from milk, those just taken from the breast?

    10For it is: command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there.

  • 1 Cor 14:20
    74%

    20Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in regard to evil, but in your thinking be mature.

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

    10but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.

    11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

  • 2 Pet 1:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    8For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they will keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    9But whoever lacks these qualities is blind and short-sighted, forgetful of the cleansing of their former sins.

  • Eph 4:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, into a mature man, to the measure of the stature that belongs to the fullness of Christ.

    14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.

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

    14But you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you have learned it.

    15And from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

  • Rom 2:20
    68%

    20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the form of knowledge and truth—

  • Heb 6:4-5
    2 verses
    67%

    4For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit,

    5and who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age,

  • Heb 6:1
    67%

    1Therefore, leaving behind the elementary teachings about Christ, let us move on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God,

  • Heb 12:5
    67%

    5And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: "My son, do not take lightly the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when you are reproved by Him."

  • Isa 7:15
    67%

    15He will be eating curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right.

  • 1 Tim 4:6
    67%

    6If you point these things out to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of faith and the good teaching that you have followed.

  • Job 21:24
    66%

    24His sides full of milk, and the marrow of his bones moist.

  • 2 Tim 3:7
    66%

    7Always learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

  • Heb 12:8
    66%

    8If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

  • 1 Pet 1:14
    66%

    14As obedient children, do not conform to the desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

  • Heb 13:9
    66%

    9Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by God’s grace, not by eating ceremonial foods, which have not benefited those who have followed them.

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

    15Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

    16Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly.

  • 1 Tim 1:7
    66%

    7They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or what they so confidently affirm.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
    65%

    7For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

  • Lam 4:4
    65%

    4The tongue of the nursing infant clings to the roof of its mouth because of thirst. The children beg for bread, but no one gives it to them.

  • Phil 3:15
    65%

    15Let all of us who are mature think this way. And if in anything you think differently, that too God will reveal to you.

  • Luke 5:39
    65%

    39And no one after drinking old wine wants new wine, for they say, 'The old is better.'

  • Titus 1:15
    65%

    15To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; rather, both their mind and conscience are defiled.

  • Heb 5:2
    65%

    2He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and wayward, since he himself is subject to weakness.

  • Luke 6:40
    65%

    40The student is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher.

  • 2 Pet 1:5
    65%

    5For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; to virtue, knowledge;

  • 1 Cor 2:14
    65%

    14But the natural person does not accept the things of God's Spirit, because they are foolishness to him. He cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

  • Eph 4:20
    65%

    20But that is not the way you learned Christ,

  • 1 Cor 1:5
    65%

    5That in every way you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge,

  • Jas 3:13
    65%

    13Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show his works by his good conduct with the humility that comes from wisdom.

  • 1 Cor 15:34
    65%

    34Wake up righteously, and do not sin, for some are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.

  • Prov 8:9
    64%

    9They are all plain to those who understand, and right to those who find knowledge.

  • 1 Cor 11:30
    64%

    30That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.