Verse 2

And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

Referenced Verses

  • Heb 5:12-13 : 12 For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God’s utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food. 13 For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.
  • Eph 4:15 : 15 But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.
  • 1 Cor 3:1-2 : 1 Immaturity and Self-deception So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 2 I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,
  • Matt 18:3 : 3 and said,“I tell you the truth, unless you turn around and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!
  • Mark 10:15 : 15 I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”
  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
  • 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 Thanksgiving We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith flourishes more and more and the love of each one of you all for one another is ever greater.
  • 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the honor both now and on that eternal day.
  • Rom 6:4 : 4 Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.
  • Hos 6:3 : 3 So let us search for him! Let us seek to know the LORD! He will come to our rescue as certainly as the appearance of the dawn, as certainly as the winter rain comes, as certainly as the spring rain that waters the land.”
  • 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 My dynasty is approved by God, for he has made a perpetual covenant with me, arranged in all its particulars and secured. He always delivers me, and brings all I desire to fruition.
  • Ps 19:7-9 : 7 The law of the LORD is perfect and preserves one’s life. The rules set down by the LORD are reliable and impart wisdom to the inexperienced. 8 The LORD’s precepts are fair and make one joyful. The LORD’s commands are pure and give insight for life. 9 The commands to fear the LORD are right and endure forever. The judgments given by the LORD are trustworthy and absolutely just. 10 They are of greater value than gold, than even a great amount of pure gold; they bring greater delight than honey, than even the sweetest honey from a honeycomb.
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light, growing brighter and brighter until full day.
  • 1 Pet 1:23 : 23 You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.
  • Mal 4:2 : 2 But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall.
  • Eph 2:21 : 21 In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
  • Job 17:9 : 9 But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
  • Hos 14:5 : 5 I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon.
  • Hos 14:7 : 7 People will reside again in his shade; they will plant and harvest grain in abundance. They will blossom like a vine, and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon.