Hebrews 5:13

Hebrews chapter 5 · verse 13 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.12For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

v.13This passage

v.14But solid food is for fullgrown men, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 28:9

    Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

  • 1 Corinthians 13:11

    When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

  • Romans 2:20

    a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;

  • 1 Peter 2:2

    as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;

  • Ephesians 4:14

    that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

  • Psalms 119:123

    Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, And for thy righteous word.