Hebrews 5:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² For even though by this time you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very first principles of God's Word. You have come to need milk, not solid food.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

Common English Bible

¹² Although you should have been teachers by now, you need someone to teach you an introduction to the basics about God’s message. You have come to the place where you need milk instead of solid food.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² For even though it is the time when you ought to be teachers, you are still lacking, so that you must be taught the things that are the basic elements of the Word of God, and so you have been made like those who are in need of milk, and not of solid food.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need to be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and you are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

Hebrews 5:12 Cross References

2 Samuel 16:23

Now in those days the counsel that Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the oracle of God, so all the counsel of Ahithophel was esteemed both by David and by Absalom.

Ezra 7:10

For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord and to do it and to teach the statutes and ordinances in Israel.

Psalm 34:11

Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

Isaiah 28:13

Therefore the word of the Lord will be to them, “Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little,” in order that they may go and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken.

Isaiah 55:1

Hear, everyone who thirsts; come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Matthew 17:17

Jesus answered, “You faithless and perverse generation, how much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him here to me.”

Mark 9:19

He answered them, “You faithless generation, how much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him to me.”

Acts 7:38

He is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai and with our ancestors, and he received living oracles to give to us.

Romans 3:2

Much, in every way. For in the first place, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.

1 Corinthians 14:19

nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind, in order to instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults.

Galatians 4:3

So with us; while we were minors, we were enslaved to the elemental principles of the world.

Philippians 3:1

Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is not troublesome to me, and for you it is a source of steadfastness.

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God.

Hebrews 10:32

But recall those earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,

Hebrews 5:11

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

Hebrews 5:13

for everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is unskilled in the word of righteousness.

Hebrews 6:1

Therefore let us go on toward perfection, leaving behind the basic teaching about Christ and not laying again the foundation: repentance from dead works and faith toward God,

1 Peter 2:2

Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation—

1 Peter 4:11

Whoever speaks must do so as one speaking the very words of God; whoever serves must do so with the strength that God supplies, so that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.