Hebrews 5:13

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For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,
  • 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.
  • Isa 28:9 : 9 Who is the LORD trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? Those just weaned from milk! Those just taken from their mother’s breast!
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.
  • 2 Tim 3:16 : 16 Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
  • Ps 119:123 : 123 My eyes grow tired as I wait for your deliverance, for your reliable promise to be fulfilled.
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 Jesus’ Invitation At that time Jesus said,“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to little children.
  • Mark 10:15 : 15 I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”
  • Rom 1:17-18 : 17 For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written,“The righteous by faith will live.” 18 The Condemnation of the Unrighteous 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 there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation, how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness excel in glory!
  • Rom 10:5-6 : 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law:“The one who does these things will live by them.” 6 But the righteousness that is by faith says:“Do not say in your heart,‘Who will ascend into heaven?’”(that is, to bring Christ down)
  • 1 Cor 3:1 : 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.
  • 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. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways.
  • Rom 2:20 : 20 an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth–

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 5:14
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    14But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

  • Heb 5:11-12
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    11The Need to Move on to Maturity On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

    12For 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.

  • 1 Cor 3:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    1Immaturity 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.

    2I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

    3for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?

  • 1 Pet 2:1-3
    3 verses
    79%

    1So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

    2And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

    3if you have experienced the Lord’s kindness.

  • Isa 28:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9Who is the LORD trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? Those just weaned from milk! Those just taken from their mother’s breast!

    10Indeed, they will hear meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there.

  • 1 Cor 14:20
    74%

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

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

    10but when what is perfect comes, the partial will be set aside.

    11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways.

  • 2 Pet 1:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    8For if these things are really yours and are continually increasing, they will keep you from becoming ineffective and unproductive in your pursuit of knowing our Lord Jesus Christ more intimately.

    9But concerning the one who lacks such things– he is blind. That is to say, he is nearsighted, since he has forgotten about the cleansing of his past sins.

  • Eph 4:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God– a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature.

    14So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

  • 2 Tim 3:14-15
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    68%

    14You, however, must continue in the things you have learned and are confident about. You know who taught you

    15and how from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

  • Rom 2:20
    68%

    20an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth–

  • Heb 6:4-5
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    4For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit,

    5tasted the good word of God and the miracles of the coming age,

  • Heb 6:1
    67%

    1Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,

  • Heb 12:5
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    5And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons?“My son, do not scorn the Lord’s discipline or give up when he corrects you.

  • Isa 7:15
    67%

    15He will eat sour milk and honey, which will help him know how to reject evil and choose what is right.

  • 1 Tim 4:6
    67%

    6By pointing out such things to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, having nourished yourself on the words of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed.

  • Job 21:24
    66%

    24his body well nourished, and the marrow of his bones moist.

  • 2 Tim 3:7
    66%

    7Such women are always seeking instruction, yet never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

  • Heb 12:8
    66%

    8But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.

  • 1 Pet 1:14
    66%

    14Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

  • Heb 13:9
    66%

    9Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.

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

    15Make every effort to present yourself before God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately.

    16But avoid profane chatter, because those occupied with it will stray further and further into ungodliness,

  • 1 Tim 1:7
    66%

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

  • 1 Thess 5:7
    65%

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

  • Lam 4:4
    65%

    4ד(Dalet) The infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel.

  • Phil 3:15
    65%

    15Therefore let those of us who are“perfect” embrace this point of view. If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways.

  • Luke 5:39
    65%

    39No one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says,‘The old is good enough.’”

  • Titus 1:15
    65%

    15All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

  • Heb 5:2
    65%

    2He is able to deal compassionately with those who are ignorant and erring, since he also is subject to weakness,

  • Luke 6:40
    65%

    40A disciple is not greater than his teacher, but everyone when fully trained will be like his teacher.

  • 2 Pet 1:5
    65%

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

  • 1 Cor 2:14
    65%

    14The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

  • Eph 4:20
    65%

    20But you did not learn about Christ like this,

  • 1 Cor 1:5
    65%

    5For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge–

  • Jas 3:13
    65%

    13True Wisdom Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct he should show his works done in the gentleness that wisdom brings.

  • 1 Cor 15:34
    65%

    34Sober up as you should, and stop sinning! For some have no knowledge of God– I say this to your shame!

  • Prov 8:9
    64%

    9All of them are clear to the discerning and upright to those who find knowledge.

  • 1 Cor 11:30
    64%

    30That is why many of you are weak and sick, and quite a few are dead.