13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is (A)a child.

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13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant,(A) is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.

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(A)Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual (B)milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

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

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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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20 Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children.(A) In regard to evil be infants,(B) but in your thinking be adults.

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(A)“To whom will he teach knowledge,
    and to whom will he explain the message?
Those who are weaned from the milk,
    those taken from the breast?

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“Who is it he is trying to teach?(A)
    To whom is he explaining his message?(B)
To children weaned(C) from their milk,(D)
    to those just taken from the breast?

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16 (A)All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

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16 All Scripture is God-breathed(A) and is useful for teaching,(B) rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,(C)

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14 so that we may no longer be children, (A)tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in (B)deceitful schemes.

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14 Then we will no longer be infants,(A) tossed back and forth by the waves,(B) and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.(C)

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Divisions in the Church

But I, brothers,[a] could not address you as (A)spiritual people, but as (B)people of the flesh, as (C)infants in Christ.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 3:1 Or brothers and sisters

The Church and Its Leaders

Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit(A) but as people who are still worldly(B)—mere infants(C) in Christ.

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For if there was glory in (A)the ministry of condemnation, (B)the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.

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If the ministry that brought condemnation(A) was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness!(B)

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11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

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11 When 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 put the ways of childhood(A) behind me.

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123 My (A)eyes long for your salvation
    and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.

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123 My eyes fail,(A) looking for your salvation,(B)
    looking for your righteous promise.(C)

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The Message of Salvation to All

For (A)Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that (B)the person who does the commandments shall live by them. But (C)the righteousness based on faith says, (D)“Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down)

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Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”[a](A) But the righteousness that is by faith(B) says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’”[b](C) (that is, to bring Christ down)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 10:5 Lev. 18:5
  2. Romans 10:6 Deut. 30:12

17 For in it (A)the righteousness of God is revealed (B)from faith for faith,[a] (C)as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”[b]

God's Wrath on Unrighteousness

18 For (D)the wrath of God (E)is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

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  1. Romans 1:17 Or beginning and ending in faith
  2. Romans 1:17 Or The one who by faith is righteous shall live

17 For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed(A)—a righteousness that is by faith(B) from first to last,[a] just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”[b](C)

God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity

18 The wrath of God(D) is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,

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  1. Romans 1:17 Or is from faith to faith
  2. Romans 1:17 Hab. 2:4

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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15 Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”(A)

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