13For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
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Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-14)Here the apostle returns to what he had in Heb. 5:6 ; Ps. 110:4 ; concerning the peculiar order of the priesthood of Christ, that is, the order of Melchisedec. And here, I. He declares he had many things which he could say to them concerning this mysterious person called Melchisedec, whose priesthood was eternal, and therefore the salvation procured thereby should be eternal also. We have a more p…
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