Hebrews 5:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

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  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.
  • Isa 7:15 : 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good.
  • Eph 1:18 : 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, and what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
  • Eph 4:13 : 13 Till we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:
  • Phil 3:15 : 15 Let us, therefore, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think differently, God will reveal even this to you.
  • 1 Cor 2:14-15 : 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged by no one.
  • 1 Kgs 3:9 : 9 Therefore give your servant an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil: for who is able to judge this your great people?
  • Rom 14:1 : 1 Accept the one who is weak in faith, but not to engage in contentious debates.
  • Gen 3:5 : 5 For God knows that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be like gods, knowing good and evil.
  • 1 Thess 5:21 : 21 Test all things; hold fast what is good.
  • Phil 1:9-9 : 9 And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment; 10 So that you may approve things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense until the day of Christ;
  • Matt 5:48 : 48 Therefore be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
  • Matt 6:22-23 : 22 The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
  • 2 Sam 14:17 : 17 Then your maidservant said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comforting: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD your God will 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 Because of the fragrance of your good ointments, your name is like ointment poured out; therefore, the maidens love you.
  • Song 2:3 : 3 As the apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
  • 1 Kgs 3:11 : 11 And God said to him, Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern judgment;
  • Job 6:30 : 30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? Cannot my palate discern perverse things?
  • Job 12:11 : 11 Does not the ear test words? and the mouth taste its food?
  • Job 34:3 : 3 For the ear tries words as the mouth tastes food.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we all stumble. If anyone does not stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

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    11Of whom we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

    12For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God; you have come to need milk and not solid food.

    13For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

  • 1 Cor 14:20
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    20Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be infants, but in understanding be mature.

  • 1 Cor 3:1-2
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    1And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, even as to infants in Christ.

    2I have fed you with milk, and not with solid food: for until now you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you able.

  • 1 Pet 2:2-3
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    2As newborn babies, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby:

    3If indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

  • Isa 28:9
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    9Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

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

    5And have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,

  • Eph 4:13-14
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    13Till we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:

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    9Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.

  • Isa 7:15
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    15Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good.

  • 2 Tim 3:14-15
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    14But continue in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them;

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

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

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    8For bodily exercise profits little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

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    11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

  • Rom 14:1-2
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    1Accept the one who is weak in faith, but not to engage in contentious debates.

    2For one believes he may eat all things, but another, who is weak, eats only herbs.

  • Phil 3:15
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    15Let us, therefore, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think differently, God will reveal even this to you.

  • Prov 8:9
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    9They are all plain to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.

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    10Finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.

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    8For if these things are in you and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    9But he who lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

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    21Test all things; hold fast what is good.

  • Heb 12:11
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    8But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we better, nor if we do not eat are we worse.

    9But take care lest this liberty of yours somehow becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak.

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    15Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all.

  • Job 34:3
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    3For the ear tries words as the mouth tastes food.

  • Heb 6:1
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  • Eph 4:19
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    19Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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    14But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

  • Rom 15:14
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    14And I myself am also persuaded of you, my brethren, that you are also full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

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