Hebrews 5:14

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

Cross References

Genesis 3:5

For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

2 Samuel 14:17

And your handmaid thought, ‘The word of my lord the king will set me at rest’; for my lord the king is like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The Lord your God be with you!”

1 Kings 3:11

And God said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right,

1 Kings 3:9

Give thy servant therefore an understanding mind to govern thy people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to govern this thy great people?”

Job 12:11

Does not the ear try words as the palate tastes food?

Job 34:3

for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.

Job 6:30

Is there any wrong on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern calamity?

Psalm 119:103

How sweet are thy words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Song of Solomon 1:3

your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is oil poured out; therefore the maidens love you.

Song of Solomon 2:3

As an apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste,

Isaiah 7:15

He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.

Matthew 5:48

You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Romans 14:1

As for the man who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not for disputes over opinions.

1 Corinthians 2:6

Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.

Ephesians 1:18

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

Ephesians 4:13

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ;

Philippians 3:15

Let those of us who are mature be thus minded; and if in anything you are otherwise minded, God will reveal that also to you.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

but test everything; hold fast what is good,

1 Timothy 4:7

Have nothing to do with godless and silly myths. Train yourself in godliness;

Hebrews 6:1

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

James 3:2

For we all make many mistakes, and if any one makes no mistakes in what he says he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.