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Hebrews 5:11-13
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Advanced Teaching Hindered by Immaturity

11 Concerning this[a] we have much to say and it is difficult to explain[b], since you have become sluggish in hearing. 12 For indeed, although you[c] ought to be teachers by this time[d], you have need of someone to teach you again the beginning elements of the oracles of God, and you have need of[e] milk, not[f] solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes of milk is unacquainted with the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 5:11 Literally “which”
  2. Hebrews 5:11 Literally “great for us the message and hard to explain to say”
  3. Hebrews 5:12 Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“ought”) which is understood as concessive
  4. Hebrews 5:12 Literally “because of the time”
  5. Hebrews 5:12 Literally “you are having need of”
  6. Hebrews 5:12 Some manuscripts have “and not”
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