Hebrews 5:13

World English Bible (2000)

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,
  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
  • Isa 28:9 : 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?
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 that 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;
  • 2 Tim 3:16 : 16 Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
  • Ps 119:123 : 123 My eyes fail looking for your salvation, for your righteous word.
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time, Jesus answered, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
  • Mark 10:15 : 15 Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."
  • Rom 1:17-18 : 17 For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith." 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
  • 2 Cor 3:9 : 9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
  • Rom 10:5-6 : 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them." 6 But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don't say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Christ down);
  • 1 Cor 3:1 : 1 Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
  • 1 Cor 13:11 : 11 When 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.
  • Rom 2:20 : 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

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

    12For 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.

  • 1 Cor 3:1-3
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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?

  • 1 Pet 2:1-3
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    79%

    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 28:9-10
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    78%

    9Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

    10For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.

  • 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.

  • 1 Cor 13:10-11
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    71%

    10but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

    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.

  • 2 Pet 1:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

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    13until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

    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;

  • 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.

  • 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 6:4-5
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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,

  • Heb 6:1
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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,

  • 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;

  • Isa 7:15
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    15He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

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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.

  • Job 21:24
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    24His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.

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    66%

    7always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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

  • 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.

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

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

    16But shun empty chatter, for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

  • 1 Tim 1:7
    66%

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

  • 1 Thess 5:7
    65%

    7For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

  • Lam 4:4
    65%

    4The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.

  • Phil 3:15
    65%

    15Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

  • Luke 5:39
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    39No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, 'The old is better.'"

  • Titus 1:15
    65%

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

  • Heb 5:2
    65%

    2The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

  • Luke 6:40
    65%

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

  • 2 Pet 1:5
    65%

    5Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

  • 1 Cor 2:14
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    14Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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

  • 1 Cor 1:5
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  • Jas 3:13
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  • 1 Cor 15:34
    65%

    34Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

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

  • 1 Cor 11:30
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    30For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.