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Read›Hebrews›Chapter 5

Milk and Solid Food

Hebrews 5:13

In 9 translations

BSB
For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.
KJV
For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
WEB
For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
ASV
For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe.
LSV
for everyone who is partaking of milk [is] unskilled in the word of righteousness—for he is an infant,
YLT
for every one who is partaking of milk [is] unskilled in the word of righteousness — for he is an infant,
DBY
For every one that partakes of milk [is] unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe;
DRC
For every one that is a partaker of milk, is unskillful in the word of justice: for he is a little child.
GNV
For euery one that vseth milke, is inexpert in the worde of righteousnes: for he is a babe.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Greek has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

SBLGNT
πᾶς γὰρ ὁ μετέχων γάλακτος ἄπειρος λόγου δικαιοσύνης, νήπιος γάρ ἐστιν·
RP2018
Πᾶς γὰρ ὁ μετέχων γάλακτος ἄπειρος λόγου δικαιοσύνης· νήπιος γάρ ἐστιν.
TR-Boyd
Πᾶς γὰρ ὁ μετέχων γάλακτος ἄπειρος λόγου δικαιοσύνης· νήπιος γάρ ἐστι.
SCR1894
πας γαρ ο μετεχων γαλακτος απειρος λογου δικαιοσυνης νηπιος γαρ εστιν

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
  • 1 Peter 2:2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
  • 2 Timothy 3:16All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • 1 Corinthians 3:1Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.
  • 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.
  • 2 Corinthians 3:9For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!
  • 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.
  • Psalms 119:123My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.
  • Romans 10:5–6For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.” But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into…
  • Mark 10:15Truly I tell you, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
  • Romans 1:17–18For 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.” The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the…
  • Romans 2:20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

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