Hebrews 5:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ for everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is unskilled in the word of righteousness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ For everyone who continues to feed on milk is obviously inexperienced and unskilled in the doctrine of righteousness (of conformity to the divine will in purpose, thought, and action), for he is a mere infant [not able to talk yet]!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe.

Common English Bible

¹³ Everyone who lives on milk is not used to the word of righteousness, because they are babies.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ For anyone who is still feeding on milk is still unskillful in the Word of Justice; for he is like an infant.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ For every one that is a partaker of milk, is unskillful in the word of justice: for he is a little child.

Hebrews 5:13 Cross References

Psalm 119:123

My eyes fail from watching for your salvation and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.

Isaiah 28:9

“Whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from milk, those taken from the breast?

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants;

Mark 10:15

Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.”

Romans 2:20

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth,

1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways.

1 Corinthians 14:20

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

1 Corinthians 3:1

And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people but rather as fleshly, as infants in Christ.

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, much more does the ministry of justification abound in glory!

Ephesians 4:14

We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming;

2 Timothy 3:16

All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Peter 2:2

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

2 John 1:11

for to welcome is to participate in the evil deeds of such a person.