Hebrews 5:12

New American Bible - revised edition

Although you should be teachers by this time, you need to have someone teach you again the basic elements of the utterances of God. You need milk, [and] not solid food.

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:23

Now the counsel given by Ahithophel at that time was as though one sought the word of God. Such was all the counsel of Ahithophel both to David and to Absalom.

Ezra 7:10

Ezra had set his heart on the study and practice of the law of the Lord and on teaching statutes and ordinances in Israel. The Decree of Artaxerxes.

Psalm 34:11

The rich grow poor and go hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

Isaiah 28:13

So for them the word of the Lord shall be: “Command on command, command on command, Rule on rule, rule on rule, here a little, there a little!” So that when they walk, they shall stumble backward, broken, ensnared, and captured.

Isaiah 55:1

All you who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come, buy grain and eat; Come, buy grain without money, wine and milk without cost!

Matthew 17:17

Jesus said in reply, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you? Bring him here to me.”

Mark 9:19

He said to them in reply, “O faithless generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you? Bring him to me.”

Acts 7:38

It was he who, in the assembly in the desert, was with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and with our ancestors, and he received living utterances to hand on to us.

Romans 3:2

Much, in every respect. [For] in the first place, they were entrusted with the utterances of God.

1 Corinthians 14:19

but in the church I would rather speak five words with my mind, so as to instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue. Functions of These Gifts.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. In respect to evil be like infants, but in your thinking be mature.

Galatians 4:3

In the same way we also, when we were not of age, were enslaved to the elemental powers of the world.

Philippians 3:1

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. Writing the same things to you is no burden for me but is a safeguard for you. Against Legalistic Teachers.

Colossians 3:16

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

Hebrews 10:32

Remember the days past when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a great contest of suffering.

Hebrews 5:11

About this we have much to say, and it is difficult to explain, for you have become sluggish in hearing.

Hebrews 5:13

Everyone who lives on milk lacks experience of the word of righteousness, for he is a child.

Hebrews 6:1

Therefore, let us leave behind the basic teaching about Christ and advance to maturity, without laying the foundation all over again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,

1 Peter 2:2

like newborn infants, long for pure spiritual milk so that through it you may grow into salvation,

1 Peter 4:11

Whoever preaches, let it be with the words of God; whoever serves, let it be with the strength that God supplies, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Trial of Persecution.