For everyonewho partakes[only] of milkis not accustomedto the wordof righteousness,for he is an infant.
My eyesfail[with longing] for Your salvationAnd for Your righteousword.
"To whomwould He teachknowledge,And to whomwould He interpretthe message?Those [just] weanedfrom milk?Those [just] takenfrom the breast?
At that timeJesussaid,"I praiseYou, Father,Lordof heavenand earth,that You have hiddenthese thingsfrom [the] wiseand intelligentand have revealedthem to infants.
"TrulyI sayto you, whoeverdoes not receivethe kingdomof Godlikea childwill not enterit [at] [all]."
a correctorof the foolish,a teacherof the immature,havingin the Lawthe embodimentof knowledgeand of the truth,
WhenI was a child,I used to speaklikea child,thinklikea child,reasonlikea child;whenI becamea man,I did awaywith childishthings.
Brethren,do not be childrenin your thinking;yetin evilbe infants,but in your thinkingbe mature.
And I, brethren,couldnot speakto you as to spiritual men,but as to men of flesh,as to infantsin Christ.
For ifthe ministryof condemnationhas glory,muchmoredoes the ministryof righteousnessaboundin glory.
As a result,we are no longerto be children,tossed here and there by wavesand carried aboutby everywindof doctrine,by the trickeryof men,by craftinessin deceitfulscheming;
AllScriptureis inspired by Godand profitablefor teaching,for reproof,for correction,for trainingin righteousness;
likenewbornbabies,longfor the puremilkof the word,sothat by it you may growin respectto salvation,
for the one who giveshim a greetingparticipatesin his evildeeds.
