Hebrews 5:12

World English Bible (2000)

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

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  • Heb 6:1 : 1 Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection--not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,
  • Heb 5:13 : 13 For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
  • 1 Cor 3:1-3 : 1 Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready, 3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?
  • Isa 28:9-9 : 9 Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? 10 For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.
  • Acts 7:38 : 38 This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us,
  • Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
  • Titus 2:3-4 : 3 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; 4 that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
  • 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
  • 1 Cor 14:19 : 19 However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.
  • Phil 3:1 : 1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.
  • 2 Sam 16:23 : 23 The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
  • Ezra 7:10 : 10 For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances.
  • Ps 34:11 : 11 Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
  • Isa 55:1 : 1 "Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
  • Matt 17:17 : 17 Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me."
  • Mark 9:19 : 19 He answered him, "Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me."
  • Rom 3:2 : 2 Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

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  • Heb 5:13-14
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    13For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

    14But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

  • Heb 5:11
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    11About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

  • 1 Cor 3:1-4
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    1Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

    2I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

    3for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?

    4For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?

  • 1 Pet 2:1-3
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    1Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

    2as newborn babies, long for 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 will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

  • 1 Tim 4:6
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    6If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

  • Heb 6:1-2
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    1Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection--not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

    2of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

  • 1 Cor 14:20
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    20Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

  • Gal 4:9-10
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    9But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

    10You observe days, months, seasons, and years.

  • Rom 2:20
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    20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

  • Heb 12:5
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    5and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

  • 2 Pet 1:12
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    12Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

  • Heb 6:4-6
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    4For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

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

    6and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

  • Eph 4:14
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    14that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

  • Heb 13:9
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    9Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

  • 1 Cor 4:15
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    15For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

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

    15From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

  • Eph 4:20-21
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    20But you did not learn Christ that way;

    21if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

  • 1 Cor 13:11
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    11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

  • 1 Tim 1:6-7
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    6from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;

    7desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

  • 2 Pet 1:8-9
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    8For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    9For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

  • Heb 2:1
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    1Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

  • 2 Tim 3:7
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    7always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

  • Gal 4:3
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    3So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

  • 2 Pet 3:17
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    17You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

  • 2 Pet 2:20
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    20For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

  • 1 Thess 5:1
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    1But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.

  • 2 Tim 4:3
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    3For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

  • 2 Tim 2:15
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    15Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

  • 1 Tim 4:15
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    15Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.

  • Heb 6:11-12
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    11We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

    12that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

  • 1 Thess 5:12
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    12But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

  • Heb 12:8
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    8But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

  • 1 Thess 2:7
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    7But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,