I gave you milk, not solid food,(A) for you were not yet ready for it.(B) Indeed, you are still not ready.

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I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

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I fed you with (A)milk and not with solid food; (B)for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able;

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12 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths(A) of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!(B) 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant,(C) is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.

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12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

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

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Spiritual Immaturity

12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the [a]oracles of God; and you have come to need (A)milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is (B)a babe.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 5:12 sayings, Scriptures

Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk,(A) so that by it you may grow up(B) in your salvation,

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As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

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(A)as newborn babes, desire the pure (B)milk of the word, that you may grow [a]thereby,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:2 NU adds up to salvation