Hebrews 5:11

New Century Version

We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain because you are so slow to understand.

Cross References

1 Kings 10:1

When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon, she came to test him with hard questions.

Isaiah 6:10

Make the minds of these people dumb. Shut their ears. Cover their eyes. Otherwise, they might really understand what they see with their eyes and hear with their ears. They might really understand in their minds and come back to me and be healed.”

Matthew 13:15

For the minds of these people have become stubborn. They do not hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might really understand what they see with their eyes and hear with their ears. They might really understand in their minds and come back to me and be healed.’

Mark 8:21

Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand yet?”

Luke 24:25

Then Jesus said to them, “You are foolish and slow to believe everything the prophets said.

John 16:12

“I have many more things to say to you, but they are too much for you now.

John 6:6

(Jesus asked Philip this question to test him, because Jesus already knew what he planned to do.)

Acts 28:27

because these people have become stubborn. They don’t hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise, they might really understand what they see with their eyes and hear with their ears. They might really understand in their minds and come back to me and be healed.’

Hebrews 5:10

In this way God made Jesus a high priest, a priest like Melchizedek.

Hebrews 5:12

By now you should be teachers, but you need someone to teach you again the first lessons of God’s message. You still need the teaching that is like milk. You are not ready for solid food.

2 Peter 3:16

He writes about this in all his letters. Some things in Paul’s letters are hard to understand, and people who are ignorant and weak in faith explain these things falsely. They also falsely explain the other Scriptures, but they are destroying themselves by doing this.