1 Peter 2:2
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2 (A)Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual (B)milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
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Hebrews 5:12-13
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12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again (A)the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need (B)milk, not solid food, 13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is (C)a child.
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Ephesians 4:15
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15 Rather, (A)speaking the truth in love, we are to (B)grow up in every way into him who is (C)the head, into Christ,
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2 Peter 3:18
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18 But (A)grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (B)To him be the glory both now and to the day of (C)eternity. Amen.
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1 Corinthians 3:1-2
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Divisions in the Church
3 But I, brothers,[a] could not address you as (A)spiritual people, but as (B)people of the flesh, as (C)infants in Christ. 2 (D)I fed you with milk, not solid food, for (E)you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,
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- 1 Corinthians 3:1 Or brothers and sisters
Mark 10:15
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15 (A)Truly, I say to you, whoever does not (B)receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
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1 Corinthians 14:20
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20 Brothers, (A)do not be children in your thinking. (B)Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be (C)mature.
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Proverbs 4:18
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18 But (A)the path of the righteous is like (B)the light of dawn,
which shines (C)brighter and brighter until (D)full day.
Job 17:9
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9 Yet the righteous holds to his way,
and he who has (A)clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
Matthew 18:3
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3 and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you (A)turn and (B)become like children, you (C)will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
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2 Thessalonians 1:3
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Thanksgiving
3 (A)We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers,[a] as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
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- 2 Thessalonians 1:3 Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters
Ephesians 2:21
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21 (A)in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into (B)a holy temple in the Lord.
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Romans 6:4
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4 We were (A)buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as (B)Christ was raised from the dead by (C)the glory of the Father, we too might walk in (D)newness of life.
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Psalm 19:7-10
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7 (A)The law of the Lord is perfect,[a]
(B)reviving the soul;
(C)the testimony of the Lord is (D)sure,
(E)making wise (F)the simple;
8 (G)the precepts of the Lord are right,
rejoicing the heart;
the commandment of the Lord is (H)pure,
(I)enlightening the eyes;
9 the fear of the Lord is clean,
enduring forever;
the rules[b] of the Lord are (J)true,
and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than (K)gold,
even much (L)fine gold;
(M)sweeter also than honey
and drippings of (N)the honeycomb.
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- Psalm 19:7 Or blameless
- Psalm 19:9 Or just decrees
1 Peter 1:23
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23 (A)since you have been born again, (B)not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through (C)the living and abiding word of God;
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2 Samuel 23:5
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5 “For does not my house stand so with God?
(A)For he has made with me an everlasting covenant,
ordered in all things and secure.
For will he not cause to prosper
all my help and my desire?
Hosea 14:7
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7 They shall return and (A)dwell beneath my[a] shadow;
they shall flourish like the grain;
they shall blossom like the vine;
their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.
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- Hosea 14:7 Hebrew his
Hosea 14:5
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5 (A)I will be like the dew to Israel;
(B)he shall blossom like the lily;
he shall take root like the trees (C)of Lebanon;
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