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13 For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right.

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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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Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment,

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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 Dear brothers and sisters, don’t be childish in your understanding of these things. Be innocent as babies when it comes to evil, but be mature in understanding matters of this kind.

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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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“Who does the Lord think we are?” they ask.
    “Why does he speak to us like this?
Are we little children,
    just recently weaned?

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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 All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right.

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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 Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth.

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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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Paul and Apollos, Servants of Christ

Dear brothers and sisters,[a] when I was with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people.[b] I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:1a Greek Brothers.
  2. 3:1b Or to people who have the Spirit.

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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If the old way, which brings condemnation, was glorious, how much more glorious is the new way, which makes us right with God!

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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 and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.

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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 eyes strain to see your rescue,
    to see the truth of your promise fulfilled.

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

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Salvation Is for Everyone

For Moses writes that the law’s way of making a person right with God requires obedience to all of its commands.[a] But faith’s way of getting right with God says, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will go up to heaven?’ (to bring Christ down to earth).

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Footnotes

  1. 10:5 See Lev 18:5.

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 This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.”[a]

God’s Anger at Sin

18 But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1:17 Or “The righteous will live by faith.” Hab 2:4.
  2. 1:18 Or who, by their wickedness, prevent the truth from being known.

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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Footnotes

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

15 I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never 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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