Hebrews 5:12
New King James Version
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.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Hebrews 5:12 sayings, Scriptures
Hebrews 6:1
New King James Version
The Peril of Not Progressing
6 Therefore, (A)leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to [a]perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from (B)dead works and of faith toward God,
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Hebrews 6:1 maturity
1 Corinthians 3:1-3
New King James Version
Sectarianism Is Carnal
3 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to (A)babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with (B)milk and not with solid food; (C)for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; 3 for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and [a]behaving like mere men?
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 1 Corinthians 3:3 Lit. walking according to man
1 Peter 2:2
New King James Version
2 (A)as newborn babes, desire the pure (B)milk of the word, that you may grow [a]thereby,
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 1 Peter 2:2 NU adds up to salvation
Hebrews 5:13
New King James Version
13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is (A)a babe.
Read full chapter
Isaiah 28:9-10
New King James Version
9 “Whom(A) will he teach knowledge?
And whom will he make to understand the message?
Those just weaned from milk?
Those just drawn from the breasts?
10 (B)For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line,
Here a little, there a little.”
Titus 2:3-4
New King James Version
3 the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things— 4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
Read full chapter
Colossians 3:16
New King James Version
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another (A)in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Read full chapter
Ezra 7:10
New King James Version
10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to (A)seek[a] the Law of the Lord, and to do it, and to (B)teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Ezra 7:10 Study
2 Samuel 16:23
New King James Version
23 Now the advice of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if one had inquired at the oracle of God. So was all the advice of Ahithophel (A)both with David and with Absalom.
Read full chapter
1 Corinthians 14:19
New King James Version
19 yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Read full chapter
Matthew 17:17
New King James Version
17 Then Jesus answered and said, “O [a]faithless and (A)perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.”
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Matthew 17:17 unbelieving
Isaiah 55:1
New King James Version
An Invitation to Abundant Life
55 “Ho! (A)Everyone who thirsts,
Come to the waters;
And you who have no money,
(B)Come, buy and eat.
Yes, come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without price.
Psalm 34:11
New King James Version
11 Come, you children, listen to me;
(A)I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
1 Peter 4:11
New King James Version
11 (A)If anyone speaks, let him speak as the [a]oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that (B)in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the [b]dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 1 Peter 4:11 utterances
- 1 Peter 4:11 sovereignty
Romans 3:2
New King James Version
2 Much in every way! Chiefly because (A)to them were committed the [a]oracles of God.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Romans 3:2 sayings, Scriptures
Mark 9:19
New King James Version
19 He answered him and said, “O (A)faithless[a] generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I [b]bear with you? Bring him to Me.”
Read full chapter
Philippians 3:1
New King James Version
All for Christ
3 Finally, my brethren, (A)rejoice in the Lord. For me to write the same things to you is not tedious, but for you it is safe.
Read full chapter
Isaiah 28:13
New King James Version
13 But the word of the Lord was to them,
“Precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line,
Here a little, there a little,”
That they might go and fall backward, and be broken
And snared and caught.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.