Hebrews 5:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ About this we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ Concerning this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull in your [spiritual] hearing and sluggish [even slothful in achieving spiritual insight].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.

Common English Bible

¹¹ We have a lot to say about this topic, and it’s difficult to explain, because you have been lazy and you haven’t been listening.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Our message about him is great, and difficult to explain when speaking, because you have been made feeble when listening.

Hebrews 5:11 Cross References

Matthew 13:15

For this people’s heart has grown dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they might not look with their eyes, and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn— and I would heal them.’

2 Peter 3:16

speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.

Acts 28:27

For this people’s heart has grown dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; otherwise they might look with their eyes and listen with their ears and understand with their heart and turn— and I would heal them.’

John 16:12

“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

John 6:6

He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do.

Luke 24:25

Then he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have declared!

Mark 8:21

Then he said to them, “Do you not yet understand?”

Isaiah 6:10

Make the mind of this people dull, and stop their ears, and shut their eyes, so that they may not look with their eyes and listen with their ears and comprehend with their minds and turn and be healed.”

1 Kings 10:1

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon (fame due to the name of the Lord), she came to test him with riddles.

Hebrews 5:10

having been designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 5:12

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic elements of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,