Hebrews 5:12 Cross References - Haweis

¹² For though ye ought for the time to be teachers of others, ye have again need that some one teach you the leading principles of the oracles of God; and are become as those who need milk, and not solid food.

¹⁷ Then Jesus answering, said, O generation, faithless, and perverse! how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring him hither to me.

¹⁹ Then addressing him, he said, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring him to me.

³⁸ This is he, who was with the church in the wilderness with the angel who spake to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the oracles of life to give unto us:

² Much in every view: the principal one indeed is, that the oracles of God were entrusted to them.

¹ AND I, brethren, have been unable to speak to you as unto spiritual men, but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ. ² And I have given you milk to drink, and not meat: for hitherto ye have not been capable of it, yea, even to the present moment ye are not capable of it. ³ For ye are still carnal: for since there are among you envy, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as [other] men?

¹⁹ but in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

¹ MOREOVER, brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but is safe for you.

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing with grace in your heart unto the Lord.

³ That the elder women also be sacredly becoming in their behaviour, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of propriety; ⁴ that they instruct the young women to be discreet, to love their husbands, to love their children,

¹³ For every one who useth milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness: for he is an infant.

¹ WHEREFORE, desisting from initiatory discourse respecting Christ, let us advance towards perfection; not again laying a foundation of repentance from dead works, and faith in God,

² as new-born babes desire earnestly the unadulterated milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

¹¹ If any man speak, let it be agreeably to the oracles of God; if any man act as a deacon, let it be from the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory and might for ever and ever. Amen.