Hebrews 5:12
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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.
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- Hebrews 5:12 sayings, Scriptures
Hebrews 6:1
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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,
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- Hebrews 6:1 maturity
1 Corinthians 3:1-3
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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?
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- 1 Corinthians 3:3 Lit. walking according to man
1 Peter 2:2
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2 (A)as newborn babes, desire the pure (B)milk of the word, that you may grow [a]thereby,
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- 1 Peter 2:2 NU adds up to salvation
Hebrews 5:13
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13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is (A)a babe.
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Isaiah 28:9-10
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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
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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,
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Colossians 3:16
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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.
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Ezra 7:10
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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.
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2 Samuel 16:23
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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.
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1 Corinthians 14:19
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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.
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Matthew 17:17
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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.”
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- Matthew 17:17 unbelieving
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