Hebrews 5:13

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“For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.”

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BSBPD

“For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“for every one who is partaking of milk <FI>is<Fi> unskilled in the word of righteousness--for he is an infant,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Hebrews 5:13 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Psalms 119:123My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.
  2. Isaiah 28:9Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast?
  3. Matthew 11:25At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
  4. Mark 10:15Truly I tell you, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
  5. Romans 1:17For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”
  6. Romans 2:20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
  7. Romans 10:5For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
  8. 1 Corinthians 3:1Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.
  9. 1 Corinthians 13:11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.
  10. 1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
  11. 2 Corinthians 3:9For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!
  12. Ephesians 4:14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.
  13. 2 Timothy 3:16All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
  14. 1 Peter 2:2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

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