Hebrews 5:14

World English Bible (2000)

But 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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  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.
  • Isa 7:15 : 15 He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
  • Eph 1:18 : 18 having the eyes of your hearts 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 until 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;
  • Phil 3:15 : 15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
  • 1 Cor 2:14-15 : 14 Now 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. 15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.
  • 1 Kgs 3:9 : 9 Give your servant therefore 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 Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
  • Gen 3:5 : 5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
  • 1 Thess 5:21 : 21 Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.
  • Phil 1:9-9 : 9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment; 10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;
  • Matt 5:48 : 48 Therefore you shall 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 evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
  • 2 Sam 14:17 : 17 Then your handmaid said, 'Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.'"
  • Ps 119:103 : 103 How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
  • Song 1:3 : 3 Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured forth, therefore the virgins love you.
  • Song 2:3 : 3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.
  • 1 Kgs 3:11 : 11 God said to him, "Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;
  • Job 6:30 : 30 Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?
  • Job 12:11 : 11 Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
  • Job 34:3 : 3 For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn't stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

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

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    13For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

  • 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 3:1-2
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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,

  • 1 Pet 2:2-3
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    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:

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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?

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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,

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  • Eph 4:13-14
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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;

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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.

  • 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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    14But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

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    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.

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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.

    7But refuse profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

    8For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

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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.

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    1Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

    2One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

  • Phil 3:15
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    15Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

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    9They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.

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    5For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

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    21It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

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    10proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

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    6and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;

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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.

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    21Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

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    8But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

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

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

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  • Eph 4:19
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    19who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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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.

  • Rom 15:14
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    14I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

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