Hebrews 5:13
Good News Translation
Anyone who has to drink milk is still a child, without any experience in the matter of right and wrong.

New Revised Standard Version
for everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is unskilled in the word of righteousness.

Contemporary English Version
People who live on milk are like babies who don't really know what is right.

New American Bible
Everyone who lives on milk lacks experience of the word of righteousness, for he is a child.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For every one that is a partaker of milk is unskilful in the word of justice: for he is a little child.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For every one that is a partaker of milk is unskilful in the word of justice: for he is a little child.

is unskilful.

Psalm 119:123 My eyes have fainted after thy salvation: and for the word of thy justice.

Romans 1:17,18 For the justice of God is revealed therein, from faith unto faith, as it is written: The just man liveth by faith. . . .

Romans 10:5,6 For Moses wrote that the justice which is of the law: The man that shall do it shall live by it. . . .

2 Corinthians 3:9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the ministration of justice aboundeth in glory.

2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice:

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Isaiah 28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the hearing? them that are weaned from the milk, that are drawn away from the breasts.

Matthew 11:25 At that time Jesus answered and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to little ones.

Mark 10:15 Amen I say to you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall not enter into it.

Romans 2:20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.

1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child.

1 Corinthians 14:20 Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in malice be children: and in sense be perfect.

Ephesians 4:14 That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive.

1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation:

Context
Warning against Drifting Away
12For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need to be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and you are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat. 13For every one that is a partaker of milk is unskilful in the word of justice: for he is a little child. 14But strong meat is for the perfect: for them who by custom have their senses exercised to the discerning of good and evil.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 3:1
And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal. As unto little ones in Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:20
Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in malice be children: and in sense be perfect.

1 Peter 2:2
As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation:

2 John 1:11
For he that saith unto him: God speed you, communicateth with his wicked works.

Hebrews 5:12
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