Hebrews 5:14

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

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  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 Now, we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are passing away.
  • Isa 7:15 : 15 He will be eating curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right.
  • Eph 1:18 : 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
  • Eph 4:13 : 13 until 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.
  • Phil 3:15 : 15 Let all of us who are mature think this way. And if in anything you think differently, that too God will reveal to you.
  • 1 Cor 2:14-15 : 14 But 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. 15 The spiritual person examines all things, but he himself is not subject to being examined by anyone.
  • 1 Kgs 3:9 : 9 So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between good and evil, for who is able to govern this great people of yours?
  • Rom 14:1 : 1 Welcome anyone who is weak in faith, but do not engage in disputes over opinions.
  • Gen 3:5 : 5 'For God knows that on the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.'
  • 1 Thess 5:21 : 21 Test all things. Hold fast to what is good.
  • Phil 1:9-9 : 9 And this is my prayer, that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight. 10 So that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ.
  • Matt 5:48 : 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
  • Matt 6:22-23 : 22 The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
  • 2 Sam 14:17 : 17 And your servant thought, 'May the word of my lord the king bring me peace, for my lord the king is like an angel of God in discerning good and evil. May the LORD your God be with you.'
  • Ps 119:103 : 103 How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
  • Song 1:3 : 3 The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the young women love you!
  • Song 2:3 : 3 Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
  • 1 Kgs 3:11 : 11 God said to him, "Since you have asked for this and not for long life, wealth for yourself, or the death of your enemies, but for discernment in administering justice,
  • Job 6:30 : 30 Is there injustice on my tongue? Can my palate not discern disaster?
  • Job 12:11 : 11 "Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes its food?"
  • Job 34:3 : 3 For the ear tests words as the tongue tastes food.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to also control his whole body.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 5:11-13
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    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.

    13For everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is still an infant.

  • 1 Cor 14:20
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    20Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in regard to evil, but in your thinking be mature.

  • 1 Cor 3:1-2
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    75%

    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.

  • 1 Pet 2:2-3
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    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
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    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?

  • Heb 6:4-5
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    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,

  • Eph 4:13-14
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    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.

  • Heb 13:9
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    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.

  • Isa 7:15
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    15He will be eating curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right.

  • 2 Tim 3:14-15
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    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.

  • Titus 1:15
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    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.

  • 1 Tim 4:6-8
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    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.

    7Reject worldly and silly myths, and instead, train yourself in godliness.

    8For bodily training is of some value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.

  • 1 Cor 13:11
    68%

    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.

  • Rom 14:1-2
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    1Welcome anyone who is weak in faith, but do not engage in disputes over opinions.

    2One person believes they may eat anything, while someone who is weak eats only vegetables.

  • Phil 3:15
    68%

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

  • Prov 8:9
    68%

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

  • Rom 8:5
    68%

    5For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

  • Rom 14:19-21
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    19So then, let us pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another.

    20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things are indeed clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.

    21It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother or sister to stumble, to be offended, or to be weakened.

  • Prov 1:4
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    4To give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth—

  • 2 Tim 3:17
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    17so that the servant of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

  • 2 Tim 2:15
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    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.

  • Eph 5:10
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    10Prove what is well-pleasing to the Lord.

  • 2 Pet 1:5-6
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    5For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; to virtue, knowledge;

    6to knowledge, self-control; to self-control, perseverance; to perseverance, godliness;

  • 2 Pet 1:8-9
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    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.

  • 1 Thess 5:21
    67%

    21Test all things. Hold fast to what is good.

  • Heb 12:11
    67%

    11No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

  • Luke 5:39
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    39And no one after drinking old wine wants new wine, for they say, 'The old is better.'

  • 1 Cor 8:8-9
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    8Food will not bring us closer to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.

    9But be careful that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

  • 1 Tim 4:15
    66%

    15Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that your progress may be evident to all.

  • Job 34:3
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    3For the ear tests words as the tongue tastes food.

  • Heb 6:1
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    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,

  • Eph 4:19
    66%

    19They have become callous and have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

  • 1 Cor 2:14
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    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.

  • Rom 15:14
    66%

    14I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

  • Rom 15:1
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    1We who are strong ought to bear with the weaknesses of those who are weak, and not to please ourselves.